Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend
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"Sets the record straight in almost every instance. . . . Pocahontas is an outstanding book--by far the most sensible and complete to date."--Book World The amazing story and alluring personality of Pocahontas (1595-1617) have endured the enlargement of legend and the distortions of time, as if waiting for Mossiker's skill, scholarship, and sensitivity to reveal Pocahontas as she was. This biography illuminates the dual world within which she struggled to identify herself, and her enormous impact on its leading figures: the first encounters and skirmishes between Indians and Englishmen in 1607; Pocahontas's dramatic rescue of Captain John Smith and her later abduction; her marriage to the Father of Tobacco, John Rolfe; the fateful voyage to England and her early death. The book also examines the myths and commercialization that have entombed Pocahontas through the centuries. In absorbing detail this vivid biography resurrects the real Pocahontas and unveils the uses-noble and ignoble-America has made of her.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0306806991
ISBN13:9780306806995
Release Date:March 1996
Publisher:Da Capo
Length:422 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"
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Separates the life from the legend....
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
The author carefully examines all the evidence of the life of Pocahontas - through anthopological, psychological, sociological analysis as well as the historical record. Of course much of what is commonly known is taken from the extensive and self-serving journals of John Smith, which the author takes with an appropriate grain of salt.This is an excellent antidote to the Disney version and a must-read for students of pre-colonial U.S. history.This book provide a fantastic glimpse of what life was really like in Jamestown in the very early days, as well as what sort of political milieu was present in tidewater Virginia at the time of settlers' arrival.
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