Lethal Encounters: Englishmen and Indians in Colonial Virginia

by Alfred A. Cave

Book Overview

This in-depth narrative history of the interactions between English settlers and American Indians during the Virginia colony's first century explains why a harmonious coexistence proved impossible.
While the romanticized story of the Jamestown colony has been retold many times, the events following the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe are less well known. The peace and goodwill did not last; within one hundred years of the English settlers'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803248342
• ISBN13: 9780803248342
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"