![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a chronicle of bloodshed and brutality on both sides-Indian and English-as well as disease, starvation, and deaths too many to count. Writing early Virginia's history is not for the fainthearted. In time for the four hundreth anniversary of Jamestown, Horn has crafted a work of impressive scholarship and graceful prose that traces the history of England's first permanent colony in the New World from the machinations of the Spanish in the 1560s through the dissolution of the Virginia Company in the 1620s. The Jamestown narrative, full of contentious, conniving, greedy newcomers and hostile natives, is where one must begin. On April 26, 1607, the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed arrived in Virginia to plant an English settlement that was, as James Horn puts it, "the birth of America." Forget about the pilgrims and the Mayflower. A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America. ![]()
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