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Lorri Glover is an assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Really very interesting information on the Founders! Recommended.
 
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aeryn0 | Jul 23, 2023 |
A fascinating bit of history that is often left out. This book gives the full context of the Jamestown Colony - the basic idea is that the colony was a failure until London finally decided to actually send enough colonists and enough supplies over. The writing is interesting, although it's occasionally repetitive.
 
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poirotketchup | 3 reseñas más. | Mar 18, 2021 |
Harebrained, no wonder our kids don't understand
 
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Newmans2001 | Dec 19, 2012 |
In terms of the book's title it fails to explicitly encapsulate the whole story, it actually is somewhat misleading (the subtitle better describes the main content of the story). In reality, the book covers much more of the genesis of American colonization by the British at the turn of the 17th Century. Not to say the book was not comprehensive, my notion is simply that the title alludes to its theme rather than what the co-authors spent time filling its pages.

The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown heavily and thoroughly documents the wheeling-and-dealing of visionaries of the Virginia Company, like those selling timeshares, they hoped to either entice investors via subscriptions to bank roll a colony on America's eastern shore or lure them to partake of the adventure. Great pains are taken to describe the political and social turmoil in London to "sell" the idea of Nova Britannia and resell it when disastrous problems were revealed after the 1609 effort. A lot of ink was dedicated to the initial enthusiasm of all classes in Britain in expanding their empire, as well as relating the skepticism of potential investors after failures were revealed.

What has become apparent to me regarding books with more than one author, is they read like a roller coaster. This volume is no exception; in the first 100 pages the writing sways from chapters reading briskly to plodding along in detail. Seemingly more than necessary, a large section of the book was dedicated to the anti-Catholic and religious times of England. Perhaps for a book about the Mayflower and its religious-freedom seeking passengers, this recounting of singular state religion and its fervor against "popery," the rest of the book has little to do with the animosity and state persecution of the colonists.

The book did a wonderful job at its conclusion, "following-up" with the more famous or well-known passengers. Once the Atlantic journey and unplanned landing on the coral reefs of Bermuda was written about, the pace of the book picked up. Tales of political strife, starvation at Jamestown turned to cannibalism, investor lose and more mutinies than could be imagined made for adventures which even William Shakespeare couldn't ignore when he penned The Tempest.
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HistReader | 3 reseñas más. | May 31, 2012 |

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