Mossiker, Pocahontas.
Mossiker, Pocahontas.
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Biografien. – Pocahontas. Mossiker, Frances. Pocahontas. The life and the legend. 1. ed. New York, Knopf, 1976. 24x17 cm. XIII, 383 p., XIII. With illustrations. Black and red half cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine and front cover. Edges slightly faded and very easily rubbed. Jacket bronzy slightly used, some small tears. Inside very clean. The story, and the woman, come alive in vibrant detail – from the first sighting of the Virginia coast from the English ships on that portentous April morning in 1607, through the early hesitant encounters (and skirmishes) between wary Indian and ambitious Englishman; from the capture of Smith and his dramatic rescue, through Pocahontas’s marriage to John Rolfe and her fateful voyage to England. Here are the Powhatans, in all the complexity and variety of their way of life; here are the colonizers of Jamestown – the frightful dangers they braved, and their eventual triumph…
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