John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609 / Helen C. Rountree, Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford ; contributing authors, Michael B. Barber ... [et al.].
Material type:
- 0813926440 : HRD
- 9780813926445
- Smith, John, 1580-1631 -- Travel -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Description and travel
- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 17th century
- Indians of North America -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 17th century
- Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Explorers -- America -- Biography
- America -- Discovery and exploration -- English
- 917.55/18 22
- F187.C5 R675 2007
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"Published in association with the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network and the U.S. National Park Service, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and Maryland Historical Trust."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-389) and index.
The Chesapeake environment in the early seventeenth century -- The world of Algonquian-speaking peoples -- Englishmen in the Chesapeake -- John Smith's first voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : June 2-July 21, 1608 -- John Smith's second voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : July 24-September 7, 1608 -- The Powhatan River, becoming "King James His River," and Hampton Roads -- The "Pamunkey" : the York River drainage -- The farmers and fishermen of the lower Eastern Shore -- The middle Eastern Shore : land of marsh and merchants -- The head of the bay : the Iroquoian speakers' northwest passage -- The Patuxent River basin : "good cheer" and "infinite kinds of fish" -- The Potomac River : conduit and boundary -- The Rappahannock River basin and the Piedmont peoples.
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