Brave Vessel : The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown

English

ISBN: 0143117521

EAN: 9780143117520

Category: Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General/History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)/History / North America/Literary Criticism / Shakespeare/History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 10/03/2011

Age Range: 18-null

Synopsis: In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the Sea Venture, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited Bermuda, a bountiful island paradise its passengers would inhabit for nearly a year before reaching their intended destination, the famine-stricken colony of Jamestown. Following the life of this ordinary man and the extraordinary account he left of his odyssey, Hobson Woodward tells one of the neglected but defining stories of Americas founding-and exposes it as the real-life inspiration for The Tempest, one of William Shakespeares enduring masterpieces. Book jacket.

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Brave Vessel : The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.79 inches

Width: 5.64 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 9.31 oz

Pages: 288