Landfall Along the Chesapeake: In the Wake of Captain John Smith
- ISBN-10
- 0801882966
- ISBN-13
- 9780801882968
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-04
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Susan Schmidt
Description
As Schmidt circles the Bay counterclockwise from Jamestown, she explores Smith's encounters with Native Americans and the Bay's ecological changes over the past hundred years. On each river and creek, she quotes Smith's journals on matching wits with Powhatan, meeting Pocahontas, surviving thunderstorms, ambush, and a stingray's barb. Anchored on wild creeks, Schmidt observes swans and dragonflies, lightning and sunsets; in port she interviews colorful characters and working watermen about blue crabs and oysters.
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