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John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609
- Title
- John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609 / Helen C. Rountree, Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford ; contributing authors, Michael B. Barber ... [et al.].
- Author
- Rountree, Helen C., 1944-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 402 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.); 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Explorers > Great Britain > Biography
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History > 17th century
- Indians of North America > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History > 17th century
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Description and travel
- Smith, John, 1580-1631 > Travel > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
- Explorers > America > Biography
- America > Discovery and exploration > British
- 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."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-389) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- ISH (Chesapeake Bay Region) 07-5174
- ISBN
- 9780813926445 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813926440 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006037564
- OCLC
- 76481428
- Author
- Rountree, Helen C., 1944-
- Title
- John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609 / Helen C. Rountree, Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford ; contributing authors, Michael B. Barber ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-389) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Clark, Wayne E.Mountford, Kent, 1938-Barber, Michael B.Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network.United States. National Park Service.Virginia. Department of Historic Resources.Maryland Historical Trust.
- Research Call Number
- ISH (Chesapeake Bay Region) 07-5174