A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America by Peter Firstbrook

A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America

Peter Firstbrook

432 pages first pub 2014 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative slow-paced
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He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh h...

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