Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend Mossiker FrancesPaperback
Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend Mossiker FrancesPaperback The amazing story and alluring personality of Pocahontas (1595--1617) have endured the enlargement of legend and the distortions of time,…
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Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend Mossiker FrancesPaperback
The amazing story and alluring personality of Pocahontas (1595--1617) have endured the enlargement of legend and the distortions of time, as if waiting for Mossiker's skill, scholarship, and sensitivity to reveal Pocahontas as she was. The book also examines the myths and commercialization that have entombed Pocahontas through the centuries. This biography illuminates the dual world within which she struggled to identify herself, and her enormous impact on its leading figures: the first encounters and skirmishes between Indians and Englishmen in 1607; Pocahontas's dramatic rescue of Captain John Smith and her later abduction; her marriage to the Father of Tobacco, John Rolfe; the fateful voyage to England and her early death.
In absorbing detail this vivid biography resurrects the real Pocahontas and unveils the uses--noble and ignoble--America has made of her.