A brave vessel : the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown / Hobson Woodward.
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TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2009.Description: xiv, 268 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN: - 9780143117520
- 0143117521
- True tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown
- Jamestown (Va.) -- History -- 17th century
- Sea Venture (Ship)
- Shipwrecks -- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century
- Seafaring life -- History -- 17th century
- Strachey, William, 1572?-1621
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Tempest
- Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
- Strachey, William, 1572?-1621
- Sea Venture (Ship)
- Tempest (Shakespeare, William)
- British colonies
- Seafaring life
- Shipwrecks
- America
- Bermuda Islands
- Virginia
- Virginia -- Jamestown
- 1600 - 1775
- F 234 .J3 W65 2009
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| F 232 .E2 B73 "Myne owne ground" : race and freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676 / | F 232 .S7 F6 Nat Turner. | F 234 .J3 B7 Jamestown, 1544-1699 / | F 234 .J3 W65 2009 A brave vessel : the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown / | F 234 .R5 J58 Ladies of Richmond, Confederate Capital. | F 262 .R4 S74 1983 Roanoke Island, the beginnings of English America / | F 273 .C45 Crisis of fear: secession in South Carolina |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.
Poet of London -- Aboard for Jamestown -- Ocean bound -- Hurricane -- Rogue wave -- Devil's land -- Angel's garden -- New life -- Rebellion -- Away to Virginia -- Relief from home -- Forest people -- Blood in the snow -- Poison -- Bound for England -- Blackfriars surprise -- Bermuda ghosts -- After the storm.
Recounts the story of aspiring writer William Strachey, who was shipwrecked on Bermuda en route to the Jamestown settlement in 1609 and wrote of his experiences, which provided the inspiration for one of Shakespeare's plays (The Tempest).
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