Pre-Owned Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin (Paperback) 1632867788 9781632867780

9781632867780. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 512. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 512 p. Contains: Illustrations. "We all know the great American origin story: it begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled 'shining city on a hill.' Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering a cautionary tale of lazy louts who hunted gold till they starved and shiftless settlers who had to be rescued by English food and the hard discipline of martial law. Neither story is true. In [this book], Joseph Kelly re-examines the history of Jamestown and comes to a radically different and decidedly American interpretation of these first Virginians. In this ... account of shipwrecks and mutiny in America's earliest settlements, Kelly argues that the colonists at Jamestown were literally and figuratively marooned, cut loose from civilization, and cast into the wilderness. The British caste system meant little on this frontier: those who wanted to survive had to learn to work and fight and intermingle with the nearby native populations"--Back cover.