![]() ![]() He unravels the crucial role of Pocahontas, a young woman whose reality has been obscured by centuries of legend and misinformation (and, more recently, animation). Price offers a rare balanced view of the relationship between the settlers and the natives. Death, in fact, became the settlers' most faithful companion, and their infighting was ceaseless. He takes us into the day-to-day existence of the English men and women whose charge was to find gold and a route to the Orient, and who found, instead, hardship and wretched misery. A gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World.ĭrawing on period letters and chronicles, and on the papers of the Virginia Company - which financed the settlement of Jamestown - David Price tells a tale of cowardice and courage, stupidity and brilliance, tragedy and costly triumph. ![]()
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