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

Автор: Peter Firstbrook

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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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Автор

Peter Firstbrook

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2014

страници

432

EAN

9781851689507

ISBN

1851689508

Enbook ID

05109352

Издател

Oneworld Publications

Теглоt

656

Размери

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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