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Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

by Benjamin Woolley

Four centuries ago, and 14 years before the Mayflower, a group of men—led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric and a government spy—left London aboard a fleet of three ships. Despite their shortcomings, and against the odds, they built Jamestown, a ramshackle outpost that laid the foundations of the British Empire and the Uni

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Publication date

April 1, 2008

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780060090579