Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series

by Camilla Townsend

Book Overview

Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves.

Neither na ve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809077388
• ISBN13: 9780809077380
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"