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1 online resource (1 audio file (600 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Michael Prichard. |
| Summary |
The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when, in 1606, Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years, warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier.To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609-the largest fleet England had ever assembled-and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda-a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) that proved to be the turning point in the colony's fortune. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Jamestown (Va.) -- History -- 17th century.
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Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century.
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Sea Venture (Ship)
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Shipwrecks -- Bermuda Islands -- History -- 17th century.
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Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century.
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Virginia Company of London -- History.
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Seafaring life -- History -- 17th century.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Daniel Blake.
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Prichard, Michael.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781400129478 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1400129478 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10757053 |
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