Research Catalog

Title

John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609 / Helen C. Rountree, Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford ; contributing authors, Michael B. Barber [and others].

Author

Rountree, Helen C., 1944-

Publication

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• 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.

Description

xi, 402 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

"In this illustrated book, scholars from multiple disciplines take the reader on John Smith's exploratory voyages and reconstruct the Chesapeake environment and its people as Smith encountered them."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Explorers > America > Biography
• Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Description and travel
• Explorers > Great Britain > Biography
• Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History > 17th century
• America > Discovery and exploration > British
• Indians of North America > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > History > 17th century
• Smith, John, 1580-1631 > Travel > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)

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

1. The Chesapeake environment in the early seventeenth century -- 2. The world of Algonquian-speaking peoples -- 3. Englishmen in the Chesapeake -- 4. John Smith's first voyage up the Chesapeake Bay: June 2-July 21, 1608 -- 5. John Smith's second voyage up the Chesapeake Bay: July 24-September 7, 1608 -- 6. The Powhatan River, becoming "King James his river," and Hampton Roads -- 7. The "Pamunkey": the York River drainage -- 8. The farmers and fishermen of the lower Eastern shore -- 9. The middle Eastern shore: land of marsh and merchants -- 10. The head of the bay: the Iroquoian speakers' Northwest passage -- 11. The Patuxent River basin: "good cheer" and "infinite kinds of fish" -- 12. The Potomac River: conduit and boundary -- 13. The Rappahannock River basin and the Piedmont peoples.

ISBN

• 9780813926445 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0813926440 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006037564

OCLC

• OCM76481428
• 76481428
• SCSB-5341274

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries