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Pocahontas: The Life And The Legend

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The author carefully examines all the evidence of the life of Pocahontas - through anthopological, psychological, sociological analysis as well as the historical record. Of course much of what is commonly known is taken from the extensive and self-serving journals of John Smith, which the author takes with an appropriate grain of salt.

This is an excellent antidote to the Disney version and a must-read for students of pre-colonial U.S. history.

This book provide a fantastic glimpse of what life was really like in Jamestown in the very early days, as well as what sort of political milieu was present in tidewater Virginia at the time of settlers' arrival.

This is clearly a book for the student mind. Not for the masses. There is way too much detail on surrounding events. On the other ships that brought John Smith to Virginia, on the anthropological aspect of Jamestown, on psychological events that may or may not happen to Pocahontas. I couldn't read more than a chapter a day as there was no life to this book only hard facts. And the paragraphs where the author shows the writing of the time gave me a headache. I understand they had not yet learned to spell correctly but after 300 pages of deciphering through words I was exhausted. I would not recommend this book to anyone who wanted to learn about Pocahontas.