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Author Doherty, Kieran.

Title Sea venture : shipwreck, survival, and the salvation of the first English colony in the New World / Kieran Doherty.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.2 DOHERTY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  973.2 DO    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-276).
Contents "Preparations most urgent"-- Sailing in friendly consort -- "A dreadful storm and hideous" -- The Isle of Devils -- "That disorderlie company" -- Mutinies -- Famine ghastly and pale -- "Misery and misgovernment" -- The buried heart -- Violent proceedings and villainy -- To populate and plant the islands -- A most pious and noble end -- "Our hoped and desired ilands" -- The Virginian woman -- "A faire and perfect common weale" -- Aftermath.
Subject Jamestown (Va.) -- History -- 17th century.
Sea Venture (Ship)
Seafaring life -- History -- 17th century.
Shipwrecks -- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century.
Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century.
Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century.
ISBN 9780312354534
0312354533
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