In chapter 7 of volume 1 of The Trve Travels, Adventvres and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America, published in 1629, John Smith writes of how he successfully defeated three Turkish officers in combat.
In chapter 7 of volume 1 of The Trve Travels, Adventvres and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America, published in 1629, John Smith writes of escaping enslavement by the Turks.
In chapter 7 of volume 1 of The Trve Travels, Adventvres and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America, published in 1629, John Smith writes of being captured by the Turks and living as a slave.
In chapters 1 and 2 of volume 1 of The Trve Travels, Adventvres and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America, published in 1629, John Smith writes of his early years and military service in Europe.
In A True relation of such occurrences and accidents of note, as hath hapned at Virginia, published in 1608, Captain John Smith tells of his experiences as one of the first English settlers of the colony at Jamestown. Smith originally wrote the account in 1607 as a letter to a friend; it was published the next year without his knowledge or permission.
In the fourth book of his Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, published in 1624, John Smith describes the content of a letter he allegedly wrote to Queen Anne, the wife of King James I of England, asking her to give special consideration to Pocahontas, the daughter of the Virginia Indian paramount chief Powhatan, on the occasion of Pocahontas’s visit to London in 1616.
In the fourth book of his Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, published in 1624, John Smith describes a tense encounter with Pocahontas during her first and only visit to England, in 1616. Pocahontas first met Smith in 1607, after he arrived in Virginia to help establish the Jamestown settlement.
In A Map of Virginia, published in 1612, Captain John Smith, one of the original English settlers at Jamestown, describes Virginia‘s geography and natural resources, as well as the language, government, and religion of Virginia Indians. Included with the manuscript was a detailed map of the colony and the locations of various Indian tribes.
In this excerpt of “Map of Virginia. With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion,” first published in 1612, the Jamestown colonist John Smith provides a list of Algonquian-language words and phrases he encountered in his dealings with the Virginia Indians of Tsenacomoco.Some spelling has been modernized and contractions expanded.
In this section of book 4 of The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, published in 1624, Captain John Smith tells of reuniting with Pocahontas in London.
