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"Selah Hopewell seems to be the only woman in the Virginia colony who has no wish to wed. True, there are too many men and far too few women in James Towne. But Selah already has her hands full assisting her father in the family's shop. And now she is in charge of an incoming ship of tobacco brides who must be looked after as they sort through their many suitors.Xander Renick is perhaps the most eligible tobacco lord in the settlement. His lands are...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Pocahontas, a Native American girl, saves the life of explorer and colonist John Smith; Pocahontas sets sail for England to convince the King that her people are civilized in order to stop an attack against them.
10) Pocahontas
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 93
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
11) The new world
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Set admidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607. Tells the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. This woman's journey of love lost and found again takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English society as we witness the dawn of a new America.
13) Pocahontas
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Reference
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In 1608, Pocahontas saved the life of an English colonist, Captain John Smith. Pocahontas's rescue of Smith made her famous not only in colonial America, but across the ocean in England as well. Afterwards, she made enormous contributions to the survival of Jamestown by bringing the colonists food and by promoting peace between the Powhatans and the English. Though she was born an Indian princess, she later adopted many English customs. Pocahontas...
14) Pocahontas
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Pocahontas was a Native American teenager famous for her connection to the colonial settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. She is said to have saved the life of Englishman John Smith. At the age of 17, she married tobacco farmer John Rolfe, eventually moving to England with him. Her story has been highly romanticized in literature and film over the years, and remains captivating to this day.
16) Pocahontas
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Series
Publisher
Pebble Books
Pub. Date
�2002
Language
English
Description
Simple text and illustrations introduce the life of the Powhatan Indian who worked throughout her life to establish peace between her people and the English.
18) Pocahontas
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Told from the viewpoints of Pocahontas and John Smith, describes their lives in the context of the encounter between the Powhatan Indians and the English colonists of seventeenth-century Jamestown, Virginia.
19) Pocahontas
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Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books, Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of Pocahontas, a Powhatan Indian, which covers her birth, meetings with English settlers, trip to England, family life, and death.