The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown, Lorri Glover
The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown, Lorri Glover
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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown
The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

Author: Lorri Glover, Daniel Blake Smith

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/16/2008

Synopsis

The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when, in 1606, Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years, warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier.

To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609—the largest fleet England had ever assembled—and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda—a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) that proved to be the turning point in the colony's fortune.

About Lorri Glover

Lorri Glover is the author of two books on the early South, Southern Sons: Becoming Men in the New Nation and All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds Among the Early South Carolina Gentry. She is a professor of early American history at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville who specializes in Southern and family history. She earned her M.A. from Clemson University and her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jen

So after reading the really crappy book about Jamestown, where I learned that communism causes dysentery. This book purports to argue that the shipwreck of the Sea Venture saved Jamestown, and I can't say that it's a super convincing argument. At times, it seems the author wanted the title more than......more

Goodreads review by Al

The title is completely misleading, but it is still an enjoyable book about early Jamestown Years and English Colonial aspirations in the 1610s, Well written in a way that keeps the reader engaged.......more

Goodreads review by Shelly

What to most of us know about the history of English America during the colonial period? Not much, that's what. In fact, many of us don't know much beyond what Disney's Pocahontas taught us - most of it flat out wrong. So this book is an absolute eye opener. The astonishing saga of the Sea Venture -......more

Goodreads review by Anson

I’m not sure that the Sea Venture saved Jamestown, but it certainly played a major role in saving British North America by wrecking on Bermuda with its more salubrious climate. Glover and Smith tell a great tale, even considering some unnecessary repetition of major themes. I had not remembered the......more

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