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A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America
A Man Most Driven Captain John Smith Pocahontas and the Founding of America Author:Peter Firstbrook He fought and beheaded three Turkish commanders in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He was captured by pirates — twice — and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved seconds before the noose dropped over his head. And all this happened before he was 30 years old. This is Captain John Smith?s l... more »ife. Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas and how she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith?s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest — and a far more ambitious and truculent self-promoter, so much so that the crew of the Mayflower snubbed his services. Now, in the first major biography of Smith in decades, award-winning BBC filmmaker and author Peter Firstbrook traces the adventurer?s astonishing exploits across three continents, testing Smith?s claimed biography against the historical and geographical reality on the ground. A Man Most Driven delivers a fascinating, enlightening dissection of this mythology-making man and the invention of America.« less