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Virginia Adventure : Roanoke to James Towne - An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey by Ivor Noël Hume (1994, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394564464
ISBN-139780394564463
eBay Product ID (ePID)154421
Product Key Features
Book TitleVirginia Adventure : Roanoke to James Towne-An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Military / United States
Publication Year1994
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorIvor Noël Hume
FormatHardcover
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Item Weight32.3 Oz
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-033213
Reviews"Ivor Noel Hume is one of the world's most elegant speakers and writers speakers and on archaeology. His record of successful work in this field is brilliant and America is fortunate that he has spent so much of his time digging up our historical record. Now he has written about his experiences in tidewater Virginia in the areas where our national history began. His book is graceful, witty; well presented and informative. He adds a new dimension to the Williamsburg area." -- James A. Michener "Martin's Hundred provides a lively narrative of modern ingenuity. We follow a sleuth and his expert staff through all the false starts and shrewd hunches of a thrilling 'find.' We discover along the way that archaeology today requires the cooperation of an international community of scientists. And ultimately, we augment our understanding of early American agriculture, early American warfare, and the tragic initial contact between Europeans and Indians in colonial times." -- Michael Kammen, author of Mystic Chords of Memory "Martin's Hundred balances scholarship and popular reporting...an exceptionally handsome book." -- Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek "No one interested in archaeology, early America, or detective investigations should miss this fascinating volume. Noel Hume's well illustrated and elegant foray into the past is, quite simply one of the best books on American archaeology yet written." -- Brian Fagan, Washington Post Book World "Ivor Noel Hum unfolds a fascinating tale with the flair of a mystery novel....[His] beautiful use of language conveys the challenge and excitement of the detective work that is leading archaeologists and historians toward a better knowledge of English Colonial life in Virginia." -- Stanley South, Christian Science Monitor
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal975.5/425
SynopsisFor thirty-five years, as writer, lecturer, and chief archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg, Ivor Noel Hume has enlivened for us the material culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America. After his warmly praised book Martin's Hundred, he now turns to the two earliest English outposts in Virginia -- Roanoke and James Towne -- and pieces together revelatory information extrapolated from the shards and postholes of excavations at these sites with contemporary accounts found in journals, letters, and official records of the period. He illuminates narratives that have a mythic status in our early history: the exploits of Sir Walter Ralegh, Captain John Smith, and Powhatan; the life and death of Pocahontas; and the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. He recounts a recent important excavation at Roanoke where he and his colleagues found the work site of a metallurgist named Joachim Gans, whose findings about the mineral wealth of Virginia helped to convince London merchants that America was a worthy risk This is an account of high and low adventure, of noble efforts and base impulses, and of the inevitably tragic interactions between Indians and Europeans, marked by greed, treachery, and commonplace savagery on both sides. The astonishment of this history is that despite bad luck, bad management, and bad blood, the English presence in America persisted and the Virginia settlements survived as the birthplace of a country founded on English law and language. With clarity, authority, and elegant wit, Noel Hume has enhanced our understanding of the historical forces and principal players behind England's first perilous ventures into the New World, and proved again that he is without a doubt one of the great interpreters of our early colonial past.
LC Classification NumberF229.N84 1994
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- 06 Mar, 2022
great book
great book. looking forward to reading it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 08 May, 2018
history roanoke to james towne
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