A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781851689507)

Named One of the Best Books of 2014 by The Providence Journal

Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas and how she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith's leadership, the Jamestown Colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest--and a far more ambitious self-promoter, too, so reputed for his truculence that the pilgrims of the Mayflower snubbed him when he offered them his services, though his 1614 map of New England (which he named) made him the unrivaled expert on America.

Now, in the first major biography of Smith in decades, award-winning BBC filmmaker and author Peter Firstbrook traces the adventurer's astonishing exploits across three continents, testing Smith's claimed biography against the historical and geographical reality on the ground. A Man Most Driven delivers an enlightening dissection of this mythology-making man and the founding of America.


Author: Peter Firstbrook
ISBN-10: 1851689508
ISBN-13: 9781851689507
Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2014
Pages: 419
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1387
Publishers Weekly 07/28/2014
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2014