Champlain's Dream @ WMC Library
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In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain -- soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France.
Juan Ponce de Leon and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida @ WMC Library
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This is the most extensive biography to date of this important but misrepresented figure in the early colonial history of America. Written by one of America's foremost experts on 15th and 16th century exploration and discovery, this book dispels the myths about Ponce de León and credits him with discoveries for which he previously has not been credited.
A Land So Strange @ SCC, WRV & Hopi
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Andrés Reséndez brings to life the vast, dynamic world of North America just a few years before European settlers would transform it forever.
A Man Most Driven @ LCC, PDC, WMC Library
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Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how she saved John Smith. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest. Now, in this first new major biography of Smith in decades, award-winning BBC filmmaker and author Peter Firstbrook traces the adventurer's astonishing exploits across three continents, testing Smith's claimed biography against the historical and geographical reality on the ground.
Mayflower Bastard @ SCC Library
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David Lindsay, researching old records to learn details of the life of his ancestor, Richard More, soon found himself in the position of the Sorcerer's Apprentice-wherever he looked for one item, ten more appeared. What he found illuminated not only More's own life but painted a clear and satisfying picture of the way the First Comers set off for the new land, suffered the voyage on the Mayflower, and put down their roots to thrive on our continent's northeastern shore.
One Colonial Woman's World @ PDC & WMC Library
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This book reconstructs the life of Mehetabel Chandler Coit (1673-1758), the author of what may be the earliest surviving diary by an American woman.
Pocahontas @ LCC Library
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In striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn Allen, the acknowledged founder of Native American literary studies, draws on sources often overlooked by Western historians and offers remarkable new insights into the adventurous life and sacred role of this foremost American heroine.
