Man Most Driven

Name: Man Most Driven
Brand: Oneworld Publications
SKU: 9781851689507
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Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Invention of America

Autor: Peter Firstbrook

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: Oneworld Publications

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He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered h...

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Autor

Peter Firstbrook

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2014

Stránok

432

EAN

9781851689507

ISBN

1851689508

Enbook ID

05109352

Vydavateľ

Oneworld Publications

Hmotnosť

656

Rozmery

159 x 237 x 35

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He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries 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 thirty 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. Now, in this first new 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. With A Man Most Driven Firstbrook delivers a riveting, enlightening dissection of this mythology-making man, England's arrival on the world stage, and the invention of America.

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