The shipwreck that saved Jamestown : the Sea Venture castaways and the fate of America

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Title:

The shipwreck that saved Jamestown : the Sea Venture castaways and the fate of America

Author:

Glover, Lorri, 1967-

ISBN:

9780805086546

Personal Author:

Glover, Lorri, 1967-

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.

Physical Description:

322 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Abstract:

An account of the 1609 rescue of the Jamestown settlers describes the factors that doomed the Virginia Company enterprise, the hurricane that compromised escape attempts, and the shipwreck that proved a turning point in the colony's fortune.

Corporate Subject:

Sea Venture (Ship)

Virginia Company of London -- History.

Subject Term:

Shipwrecks -- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century.

Seafaring life -- History -- 17th century.

Geographic Term:

Jamestown (Va.) -- History -- 17th century.

Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century.

Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century.

Added Author:

Smith, Daniel Blake.

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