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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Tantor Media Inc
Publication date September 2, 2008
Binding CD/Spoken Word
Edition Unabridged
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781400109470
ISBN-10 1400109477
Dimensions 1.25 by 5.50 by 6.50 in.
Weight 0.52 lbs.
Original list price $34.99
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when, in 1606, Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years, warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609-the largest fleet England had ever assembled-and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda-a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) that proved to be the turning point in the colony's fortune.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780805086546
 
from Henry Holt & Co (August 5, 2008)
9780805086546 | details & prices | 322 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.28 lbs | List price $26.00
Paperback
Book cover for 9780805090253
 
1 reprint edition from Henry Holt & Co (July 21, 2009)
9780805090253 | details & prices | 322 pages | 5.00 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.58 lbs | List price $16.99
Miscellaneous
1 edition from Henry Holt & Co (April 1, 2010)
9781429930963 | details & prices | 336 pages | List price $9.99
CD/Spoken Word
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With Michael Prichard (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Tantor Media Inc (September 2, 2008)
9781400109470 | details & prices | 5.50 × 6.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.52 lbs | List price $34.99
About: The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean.
With Michael Prichard (other contributor) | Mp3 una edition from Tantor Media Inc (September 2, 2008)
9781400159475 | details & prices | 5.50 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $24.99

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