A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers The English had long dreamed of colonizing America; especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe’s Jamestown just as it had Raleigh’s Roanoke a generation earlier.To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order; the company chose a new leader; Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609—the largest fleet England had ever assembled—and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that “it beat all light from Heaven.†The inspiration for Shakespeare’s The Tempest; the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet; driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda—a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony’s fortune.
#49667 in Books Holt Paperbacks 1994-09-15 1994-09-15Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 207.77 x 21.08 x 5.51l; .66 #File Name: 0805031499301 pagesHolt Paperbacks
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful. So relevant for today!By ZOMBOIPSo you think you're free just because you have the freedom to do and say whatever you want? Erich Fromm shows how this idea of freedom comes as a result of many illusions. Human beings shaped now in modern capitalist democracies are at risk because they are attached to the results that they get within the systems limitations. They have become cogs in a big machine and function only as such. The "gears" psychologically turn us into automatons. All we think about is money. The more the elite can deceive; the more the masses work to please them. Is this this price of progress; or is it sacrificing the beauty of one life; multiplied over and over; for the sake of a few? Oh; this is a worthy read because Fromm really writes well and follows psychological intricacies of awareness and shows historically what happened to lead us to escape from freedom and struggle to embrace it socially and politically.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. it seems to me that this book is his best; I was sorry that igBy Margotit seems to me that this book is his best;I was sorry that ig.n the Kindle addition you left out the epilogue which is brillilant to understand the differences in culture and his explanation.His view why people followed Hitler is extremely convincing;and as it came out in 1941 one didn't know yet what the future would bring.It certainly made Fromm famous and I dare say that even today people who haven't read the book should do so as it will enrich them;historically;sociological and psychologically0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. ThoughtfulBy AjThis book caused me to think deeper. 3 dimensions deep. It caused me to question my motivations for and definitions of; success.
