John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609
Title:
John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609
Author:
Rountree, Helen C., 1944-
ISBN:
9780813926445
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Publication Information:
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Physical Description:
xi, 402 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
General Note:
"Published in association with the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network and the U.S. National Park Service, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and Maryland Historical Trust."
Contents:
The Chesapeake environment in the early seventeenth century -- The world of Algonquian-speaking peoples -- Englishmen in the Chesapeake -- John Smith's first voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : June 2-July 21, 1608 -- John Smith's second voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : July 24-September 7, 1608 -- The Powhatan River, becoming "King James His River," and Hampton Roads -- The "Pamunkey" : the York River drainage -- The farmers and fishermen of the lower Eastern Shore -- The middle Eastern Shore : land of marsh and merchants -- The head of the bay : the Iroquoian speakers' northwest passage -- The Patuxent River basin : "good cheer" and "infinite kinds of fish" -- The Potomac River : conduit and boundary -- The Rappahannock River basin and the Piedmont peoples.
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