Warner follows Smith from his Lincolnshire boyhood through soldiering against the Turks in Hungary, captivity and wandering, to the founding of Jamestown and its quarrels, famines and dealings with Powhatan. Throughout he tests Smith’s own colourful accounts, including the Pocahontas rescue, against other sources.
A lively, sceptical life of a self-made legend by the co-author of The Gilded Age. Download the free EPUB.