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008			930831s1994 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010			_a 93033213
015			_aB9498552
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020			_a9780394564463
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050	0	0	_aF229 _b.N84 1994
082	0	0	_a975.5/4251 _220
100	1		_aNo�el Hume, Ivor. _974765
245	1	4	_aThe Virginia adventure : _bRoanoke to James Towne : an archaeological and historical odyssey /
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bKnopf, _c1994.
300			_axxviii, 491 p. : _bill., maps ; _c25 cm.
500			_aMap of early Virginia (17th and 18th century America) on end papers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [459]-467) and index.
505	0		_aWhosoever commands the sea -- The new fort in Virginia -- The cittie that never was -- West from the Azores -- Most welcome and fertile place -- Arrows of outrageous fortune -- Alarums and excursions -- Crowning and other achievements -- Lewd and naughtie practices -- A ship in time -- Strong pales and shivered arrows -- No fayre lady -- Questionable answers -- Stinking beer and other calamities -- Day of the diggers.
520			_aThis book examines the two earliest English outposts in Virginia--Roanoke and James Towne--and pieces together revelatory information extrapolated from the shards and postholes of excavations at these sites with contemporary accounts found in journals, letters, and official records of the period. The author illuminates narratives that have a mythic status in our early history : the exploits of Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain John Smith, and Powhatan; the life and death of Pocahontas; and the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. He recounts an excavation at Roanoke where he and his colleagues found the work site of a metallurgist named Joachim Gans, whose findings about the mineral wealth of Virginia helped to convince London merchants that America was a worthy risk. This is an account of high and low adventure, of noble efforts and base impulses, and of the inevitably tragic interactions between Indians and Europeans, marked by greed, treachery, and commonplace savagery on both sides.
651		0	_aRoanoke Colony. _974766
651		0	_aJamestown (Va.) _xHistory. _927999
651		6	_aColonie de Roanoke (Car. du N.) _xHistoire. _974767
651		6	_aJamestown (Va.) _xHistoire. _927999
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random057/93033213.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/93033213.html
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