Reviews for Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream

The average rating for Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-06-27 00:00:00 Ronnel J Bernard It would be hard to overstate how much I enjoyed this book. The Hooblers tell the story of John Smith masterfully, with a great eye for detail and with a sense of historical balance and perspective. For anyone interested in either Captain John Smith or the Jamestown colony, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I expect to be reading it a second time within the next year.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-08 00:00:00 Russell Barry Just a casual snatch off a library shelf, turned into a very pleasant surprise. I thought I knew the bare bones story of John Smith, Jamestown and Pocahontas, only to discover how little of the history of England's early explorations of this New World I understood. The authors, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have produced a very commendable biography of Captain John Smith, not just his involvement with Jamestown. A surprise for me was learning of his exploits fighting in the Netherlands, France and Transylvania, before his capture by Ottoman Turks and enslavement in Constantinople, and then escaping to Russia! Such is the detail of Smith's explorations in Virginia that I have accompanied the reading with my world atlas and Google Earth to follow the text. Accompanied with generous source notes and a short bibliography. A fascinating life story of another incredible Elizabethan.