Savage Kingdom: Virginia and The Founding of English America - Hardcover

Woolley, Benjamin

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9780007131693: Savage Kingdom: Virginia and The Founding of English America

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007131690 ISBN 13: 9780007131693

Publisher: HarperPress, 2007

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1st Printing. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents.

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‘With imagination, restraint and delicacy Woolley crafts a narrative both finely-grained and meticulously plotted – a fitting memorial for the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's foundation. As in his previous works, the lightest touch reanimates the past, evoking and elucidating equally.‘ Sunday Telegraph

‘Woolley...tells the story lucidly, elegantly and with a command of the broad sweep of the early 17th century and the fine details of human behaviour.’ The Guardian

‘It's fascinating to get access to a society in which individuals make an impact...for those on the ground one thing followed another and the best thing about this book is the way it gives a sense of how hectic and dangerous that felt.’ Daily Telegraph

‘Benjamin Woolley tells this story in direct, engaging prose...his book is a delight.’ The Spectator

‘This fine, highly readable and thoroughly charming account...Woolley has drawn brilliantly on neglected sources from across the world to reveal what this reckless endeavour managed to achieve in the land of Pocahontas.’ Independent on Sunday

‘Benjamin Woolley has produced a rollicking account of the early years of the English in America, full of fascinating detail.’ Mail on Sunday

‘“Savage Kingdom” is beautifully written and illustrated...Woolley does an especially good job of contextualising the many narratives describing early Virginia.’ BBC History Magazine

‘In his addictively readable narrative, Woolley not only deconstructs the myth of Pocahontas to reveal a more complex truth, but also tells the multilayered story of how a ramshackle outpost of Jacobean England sowed the seeds of what eventually became the most powerful nation on earth.’ Sunday Times

‘Woolley's impressive scholarship goes almost unnoticed in this lively, enthralling account of how "a new other Britain" was built "in that new other World".’ The Scotsman

Sunday Times:

'...addictively readable narrative...'

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