Tag: Jamestown

Marooned Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin [Audiobook]


Free Download Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin (Audiobook)
English | January 28, 2020 | ASIN: B083ZL9FHB | M4B@64 kbps | 13h 56m | 415 MB
Author: Joseph Kelly | Narrator: Bob Souer
We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled "shining city on a hill". Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering a cautionary tale of lazy louts who hunted gold till they starved and shiftless settlers who had to be rescued by English food and the hard discipline of martial law.
Neither story is true. In Marooned, Joseph Kelly re-examines the history of Jamestown and comes to a radically different and decidedly American interpretation of these first Virginians.

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1607 Jamestown and the New World


Free Download Dennis Montgomery, "1607: Jamestown and the New World"
English | 2007 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 074255838X, 0742558371 | EPUB | 180,4 mb
1607 vividly tells the story of the founding of Jamestown, recounting the situation of the original Indian inhabitants, the arrival of British settlers 400 years ago, the building of the town-and modern excavations at the site. Along the way, we meet such familiar figures as King James, John Smith, and Pocahontas, but we also come across strange episodes of cannibalism and skullduggery, heroism, and romantic love.

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