Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin

by Joseph Kelly

Book Overview

For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth.

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 city on a hill. Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163286777X
• ISBN13: 9781632867773
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"