The John Smith Page

John Smith Portrait

( 1580-1631 )

Major Works
The standard edition is The Complete Works of Captain John Smith. Edited by Philip L. Barbour. North Carolina, 1986.
A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Hapned in Virginia ( 1608 ).
A Description of New England ( 1616 ).
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New- England, and the Summer Isles ( 1624 ).

About Smith
Philip L. Barbour, The Three Worlds of Captain John Smith. Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
J. A. Leo Lemay, The American Dream of Captain John Smith. Virginia, 1991.
Robert S. Tilton, Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative. Cambridge, 1994.
David A. Price, Love and Death in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation, Vintage Books, 2003.
Captain John Smith Picture and Biographical Sketch
John Smith from Virtual Jamestown.
Pocahontas Revealed from PBS.
Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas

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