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VIRGINIA 1607 - 1776 (Voices from Colonial America series)
by Sandy Pobst with Kevin Roberts, Ph.D. Color & B&W era art works, maps, and woodcuts. Decorated end pages with the known (& supposed) North America at the time.
Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 2005 National Geo hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket), no printing given. Problem: DJ shows edgewear top edge with very short "repaired" tear at spoine. Everything else perfect.
Content: One of the largest and most prosperous of the original colonies, Virginia played a huge role in forming America. Here, an appealing mixture of maps, archival photographs and first-person accounts opens kids' eyes to life in colonial Virginia. They'll learn the latest theories about Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony and Pocahontas's rescue of John Smith. They'll learn about the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe, life on a Tidewater plantation, and the role George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and other native sons played in the birth of the nation and the emergence of Virginia as the 10th state in 1788. Middle-school students will encounter Colonial America through fresh eyes in this comprehensive series. Archival photographs, period maps, and lively, first-person accounts from explorers, Native Americans, missionaries, slaves and indentured servants, farmers, government officials, and more are seamlessly woven together to create a vibrant and accurate portrait of life in 18 European colonies—not just British but French and Spanish, too. The book begins "the hstory of the United States starts with Virginia." Point taken, but those of us in the Southwest would not agree. Very nice book. Young Adults and adults as well. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 10.59 + $ 3.29 media shipping.
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Price: $ 10.59
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