The wild shores : America's beginnings / by Tee Loftin Snell ; photos. by Walter Meayers Edwards, paintings by Louis S. Glanzman ; foreword by David Mark Griffiths ; prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington : National Geographic Society, [1974]Description: 203 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0870441485
  • 9780870441486
Other title:
  • America's beginnings
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Wild shores.DDC classification:
  • 973.1
LOC classification:
  • E121 .S63
Contents:
Foreword -- The newfound land -- Island triumphs, mainland defeats, 1492-1561 -- Bloody Florida, lost Roanoke, 1562-1590 -- Settlers for a season, 1520-1608 -- Holding on in Virginia and Canada, 1607-1620 -- Pious Plymouth, rowdy Manhattan, 1620-1630 -- Lords brethren and lords Calvert, 1625-1647 -- Struggle over land, rent and rulers, 1638-1699 -- Outposts in the south, 1 650-1775 -- Missions and fur posts on the Pacific, 1740-1841.
Summary: Examines the origins of America's early settlers and the successes and failures of the early French, English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, German, and Russian settlements in the New World.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 202) and index.

Examines the origins of America's early settlers and the successes and failures of the early French, English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, German, and Russian settlements in the New World.

Foreword -- The newfound land -- Island triumphs, mainland defeats, 1492-1561 -- Bloody Florida, lost Roanoke, 1562-1590 -- Settlers for a season, 1520-1608 -- Holding on in Virginia and Canada, 1607-1620 -- Pious Plymouth, rowdy Manhattan, 1620-1630 -- Lords brethren and lords Calvert, 1625-1647 -- Struggle over land, rent and rulers, 1638-1699 -- Outposts in the south, 1 650-1775 -- Missions and fur posts on the Pacific, 1740-1841.

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