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John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609 / Helen C. Rountree, Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford ; contributing authors, Michael B. Barber [and others].

Author
Rountree, Helen C., 1944-
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xi, 402 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Clark, Wayne E., Mountford, Kent, 1938-, Barber, Michael B., Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, United States. National Park Service, Virginia. Department of Historic Resources, and Maryland Historical Trust

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Contents
The Chesapeake environment in the early seventeenth century -- The world of Algonquian-speaking peoples -- Englishmen in the Chesapeake -- John Smith's first voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : June 2-July 21, 1608 -- John Smith's second voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : July 24-September 7, 1608 -- The Powhatan River, becoming "King James His River," and Hampton Roads -- The "Pamunkey" : the York River drainage -- The farmers and fishermen of the lower Eastern Shore -- The middle Eastern Shore : land of marsh and merchants -- The head of the bay : the Iroquoian speakers' northwest passage -- The Patuxent River basin : "good cheer" and "infinite kinds of fish" -- The Potomac River : conduit and boundary -- The Rappahannock River basin and the Piedmont peoples.
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ISBN
9780813926445 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813926440 (cloth : alk. paper)
Note
"Published in association with the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network and the U.S. National Park Service, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and Maryland Historical Trust."
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-389) and index.
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