Jamestown: The Novel: The story of America's beginnings by Virginia Purinton Bernhard

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By Virginia Purinton Bernhard

In 2013 archaeologists in Jamestown, Virginia came upon the grave of a fourteen-year-old lady who had died there four hundred years in the past. Her bones bore the unmistakable marks of cannibalism: facts that during the poor "Starving Time" within the wintry weather of 1609-1610, many of the determined colonists who ate rats, mice, shoe leather-based to stick alive, additionally ate human flesh. Their tale is informed during this awesome ancient novel. in response to the particular historical past of Virginia, this can be a story of savagery and squalor, love and betrayal, of unquenchable wish and gritty braveness. a number of the characters are recognized from colonial documents: John Smith and Pocahontas (the web site of her well-known "rescue" of Smith has lately been discovered); the smart Powhatan, father of Pocahontas and ruler of 15,000 Indians; Temperance and George Yardley, a pair separated through a shipwreck and reunited with unexpected effects; and others who made the perilous voyage to Virginia. There a made up our minds corporation of settlers struggled to outlive in an strange land. Surrounded through natives who didn't welcome them, they battled grim adversity and human frailty, deceit, and treachery to plant the 1st profitable English colony within the New World.

By the time the Mayflower landed at Plymouth in 1620, English ships had already carried greater than 3 thousand humans to Jamestown, Virginia--and approximately thousand of them had died there.

Their tale is the tale of America's beginnings.

Virginia Bernhard is Professor Emerita of background on the college of
St. Thomas. She is the writer of A story of 2 COLONIES: WHAT particularly occurred IN VIRGINIA AND BERMUDA? (2011) and different works on early American heritage. She and her husband reside in Houston, Texas.

A complicated story of braveness, treachery, cultural clash, administrative bungling and determined choices.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Colonial Jamestown springs from the pages. An soaking up telling that blends truth and fiction.
NEW YORK day-by-day NEWS

Combines Bernhard's services as an American historical past professor with a bright, definite prose sort to supply a wealthy story of affliction and triumph in 1600s America.
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