“Savage Kingdom: Virginia and the Founding of English America” - это эпическая история первой колонии в Вирджинии и правдивая история о Покахонтас, приуроченная к 400-летию колонии в 2007 году. Четыре века назад, за четырнадцать лет до “Мэйфлауэра”, группа мужчин, возглавляемая одноруким бывшим пиратом, эпилептическим аристократом, падшим священником и правительственным шпионом, покинула Лондон на трех кораблях, чтобы начать новую жизнь в Америке. Они прибыли в Вирджинию весной 1607 года и приступили к попытке создать поселение на крошечном острове в реке Джеймс. Несмотря на свои недостатки и против всех шансов, они построили Джеймстаун, ветхий форпост, который заложил основы Британской империи и Соединенных Штатов Америки.
Savage Kingdom, the story of how Virginia's first colony and the story of Puhonhas (Pocahontas), were born, coinciding with the anniversary of colonization in 25-year celebration in 20 December 2017.
409 years after leaving England, four men, led by Robin Sage, Thomas Harriot, Robert Jameston and William Pynchon, left aboard three ships for American colony. In a remote corner of the James River valley, mountainous rough land but also fertile in resources, Goldsmith Jameston decided to settle 30 miles inland where was a mild temperate climate and sweet water springs, Rich plain surrounded by mountain backgrounds, and becomes the center of the future city, founded the "State of James". Piece by piece Jamie established and extended its territorial precincts and our country's relationship to Britain through the Monarchs James I, Charles I, James II, Philip II, James II (who subscribed the Parliament Act and Globe Tavern Act).
After the weak petition pleaded and leads to their bankruptcy, b Earl Hamnett, James set back into Europe, taking Jamie with him. His absence, Virginia had to struggle for self-government and development behind a boundary raising day gain limited action toward independence. Gregarious gentlemen Christopher Newport and John Smith shared some intriguing ruminations of Americans (Jamestons) colonists into the Carolina area, while Matthias Coxe accidentally discovered the coastal channel approaching Jameston's territory.
Электронная Книга «Savage Kingdom: Virginia and The Founding of English America» написана автором Benjamin Woolley в году.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9780007404971
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Epic history of the first Virginia Colony and the true story of Pocahontas, to coincide with the colony’s 400th anniversary in 2007.Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men-led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric and a government spy-left London aboard a fleet of three ships to start a new life in America. They arrived in Virginia in the spring of 1607, and set about trying to create a settlement on a tiny island in the James River. Despite their shortcomings and against the odds, they built Jamestown, a ramshackle outpost which laid the foundations of the British Empire and the United States of America.Drawing on new discoveries, neglected sources and manuscript collections scattered across the world, Savage Kingdom challenges the textbook image of Jamestown as a mere money-making venture. It reveals a reckless, daring enterprise led by outcasts of the old world who found themselves interlopers in a new one. It charts their journey into a beautiful landscape and sophisticated culture that they found both ravishing and alien, which they yearned to possess, but threatened to destroy.It shows them trying to escape the 'Savage Kingdom' that their homeland had become, and endeavoring to build 'one of the most glorious nations under the sun'.An intimate story in an epic setting, Woolley shows how the land of Pocahontas came to be drawn into a new global order, reaching from London to the Orinoco Delta, from the warring kingdoms of Angola to the slave markets of Mexico, from the gates of the Ottoman Empire to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.
