Edited by the late Philip L. Barbour, acknowledged as the leading
authority on Captain John Smith, this annotated three-volume work is the
only modern edition of the works of the legendary figure who captured
the interest of scholars and general readers for over four centuries. A
hero and adventurer, Smith was the leader who saved Jamestown from
self-destruction, and he was also instrumental in the exploration and
settlement of New England. He produced one of the basic ethnological
studies of the tide-water Algonkians, an invaluable contemporary history
of early Virginia, the earliest well-defined maps of Chesapeake Bay and
the New England coast, and the first printed dictionary of English
nautical terms. This is Volume III of three volumes.
Originally published in 2011.
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