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PUBLICATION DETAILS: Published by the University of Virginia Press in association with Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, and the U.S. National Park Service, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and Maryland Historical Trust. 2007. Illustrated. 402 pages. Hardback. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine. Map on dust jacket.
THE BACK STORY: “So, when Captain John Smith – a member of the Jamestown colony – voyaged throughout the Chesapeake Bay, his primary goals were to discover precious metals and the Northwest Passage. He also set about mapping the area, learning about Indigenous peoples, and claiming land for the English crown. As we now know, the Chesapeake Bay was neither rich in gold nor a passageway to the Pacific Ocean. Rather, the Virginia Colony would not become profitable to the English until it began growing desirable strains of tobacco a few decades later. But when John Smith set out in the summer of 1608, he did not know what fortune might await him in the winding rivers of the estuary.
“That summer, Captain John Smith set out on two exploratory voyages that covered thousands of miles of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The information he recorded about Indigenous peoples and the landscape introduced the region to those in England hoping to expand the colony. Later in his life, he documented the region he named New England in a similar fashion. Helping to attract settlers to the colonies, Smith’s explorations had consequences for Indigenous peoples who would soon face displacement and violence as they resisted colonial intrusion” (U.S. National Park Service)
CONDITION: New.
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