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The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (often abbreviated to The Generall Historie) is a book written by Captain John Smith, first published in 1624. The book is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, histories of the territory administered by the London Company.
For the next three years he was busily employed, as his "Generall Historie of Virginia" witnesses, in founding the Colony; in September 1609 he narrowly escaped death by the accidental explosion of a bag of gun-powder, and left for England to recruit his health. He did not return to Virginia, but for the next few
…Description of the Country (1612); The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624); and The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America (1630). The Mayflower colonists of 1620 brought his books and maps with them to Massachusetts. Smith… Read More.
Aug 26, 2024 · Captain John Smith was a soldier and writer who is best known for his role in establishing the Virginia colony at Jamestown, England’s first permanent colony in North America.
It was first printed in 1624, and contains detailed accounts of the surveying of the coast of Virginia and New England by Smith, the founding of Jamestown, of Bermuda in 1612 and of the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1620.
(title page) The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624.
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John Smith published additional writings including The Generall Historie of Virginia (1624) and The True Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith (1630). These books recount the same incidents described in earlier works but introduce new details and descriptions.
