Captain John Smith, Adventurer: Piracy, Pocahontas and Jamestown

by R E Pritchard

Overview

This is the amazing story of one of Elizabeth England's most remarkable adventurers: Captain John Smith.

Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an extraordinary life filled with danger and adventure. As a soldier, he fought the Turks in Eastern Europe, where he beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. All this before he was thirty years old.

He was one of the founders of the English settlement at Jamestown, where he faced considerable danger from the natives as well as from within the faction-ridden settlement itself. In fact, 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. This swashbuckling Elizabethan adventurer was resourceful, intelligent and outspoken, with a vision of what America could become. In this riveting book, R.E. Pritchard tells the rip-roaring story of a remarkable man who refused to give in.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526773623
Publisher:	Pen and Sword
Publication date:	09/10/2020
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Born in India, R.E. Pritchard read English at Balliol College, Oxford, before becoming a lecturer at Keele University. He has published widely on a range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century subjects, from Shakespeare’s England to the court of Charles II. He lives in West Oxfordshire.

Table of Contents

Foreword 1

1 Upon Brave Adventures 4

2 To Conquer is to Live 16

3 Dangerous Service 31

4 Go West, Young Man 42

5 Getting to Know You 58

6 Tuftataffety Humourists 68

7 Time of Trial 76

8 Gilded Dirt 88

9 The Phoenix and the Nonpareil 97

10 Trips Round the Bay 104

11 Love You Not Me? 119

11 There Comes Captain Smith 127

13 Things Fall Apart 140

14 Since You've Been Gone 152

15 Perplexed Thoughts 163

16 All That I Have 173

References and Further Reading 189

Picture Sources 195

Index 196