Love & Hate in Jamestown—John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

A New York Times Notable Book and a San Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003.

In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith's life. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.

• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 320
• Pub. Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Published by Vintage

David A. Price
David A. Price is the author of Love & Hate in Jamestown, a history of the Jamestown colony. He was formerly a reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau of Investor's Business Daily. He grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and holds degrees from the College of William & Mary, Harvard Law School, and Cambridge University. In addition to his book on Jamestown, he has written about the colony for National Geographic Online and Encyclopędia Britannica, writing Britannica's entries on Jamestown, Pocahontas, and Powhatan.

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