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001 2014482136
003 DLC
005 20151021105855.0
008 140721s2014 enkab b 001 0beng d
010 $a 2014482136
020 $a9781851689507
020 $a1851689508
020 $a9781780747101
020 $a1780747101
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn891676178
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050 00 $aF229.S7$bF57 2014
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100 1 $aFirstbrook, P. L.$eauthor.
245 12 $aA man most driven :$bCaptain John Smith, Pocahontas and the founding of America /$cPeter Firstbrook.
264 1 $aLondon, England :$bOneworld,$c2014.
300 $ax, 419 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 385-408) and index.
520 $aOffers a look at the life of the explorer, soldier of fortune, and colonist John Smith, from his early life and adventures to his exploits in the New World and role in the founding of America.
520 $a"He fought and beheaded three Turkish commanders in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He was captured by pirates--twice--and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved seconds before the noose dropped over his head. And all this happened before he was 30 years old. This is Captain John Smith's life. Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas and how she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith's leadership, the Jamestown Colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest--and a far more ambitious self-promoter, too, so reputed for his truculence that the pilgrims of the Mayflower snubbed him when he offered them his services, though his 1614 map of New England (which he named) made him the unrivaled expert on America. Now, in the first major biography of Smith in decades, award-winning BBC filmmaker and author Peter Firstbrook traces the adventurer's astonishing exploits across three continents, testing Smith's claimed biography against the historical and geographical reality on the ground. A Man Most Driven delivers an enlightening dissection of this mythology-making man and the invention of America."--from publisher's description.
505 0 $aApprentice (1580-1600) -- Pirate (1600-1601) -- Mercenary (1601-1602) -- Knight-errant (1602) -- Slave (1603-1604) -- Entrepreneur (1605-1606) -- Colonist (1606-1607) -- Survivor (1607) -- Prisoner (1607) -- Trader (1608) -- President (1608-1609) -- Dictator (1609) -- Admiral (1609-1615) -- Grandee (1615-1631)
600 10 $aSmith, John,$d1580-1631.
600 00 $aPocahontas,$d-1617.
650 0 $aColonists$zVirginia$zJamestown$vBiography.
650 0 $aExplorers$zAmerica$vBiography.
650 0 $aExplorers$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1603/2014482136-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1603/2014482136-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1603/2014482136-s.html