Title: A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's the Tempest
Author: Hobson Woodward
Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9780670020966
Publisher: Viking
Pages: 288
Extension: EPUB
Size: 414 KB
Subjects: General, Europe, History, United States, Great Britain, Literary Criticism, History: American, History - U.S., Virginia, Transportation, shipwrecks, State & Local, Shakespeare, William, Drama, Ships & Shipbuilding, ca. 1600-1775, Jamestown (Va.), South, Seafaring life, Shakespeare; William, Colonial Period (1600-1775), Virginia - History - Colonial period; ca. 1600-1775, Bermuda Islands - History - 17th century, 17th century, Strachey; William, Jamestown (Va.) - History - 17th century, U.S. - Discovery And Exploration, Virginia - History - Colonial period, Seafaring life - History - 17th century, South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV), Strachey, Great Britain - Colonies - America - History - 17th century, Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks, Sea Venture (Ship), Shipwrecks - Bermuda Islands - History - 17th century, Caribbean & West Indies - General, North America, 1572?-1621, Bermuda Islands, United States - Colonial Period, Caribbean & West Indies
Categories: History, Literature, Sports, Transportation, European History, United States History, World History, Literary Criticism, Outdoor & Adventure Sports, Boating & Sailing, Water Sports, Ships & Shipbuilding, British History - General & Miscellaneous, Colonial Era - United States History, Americas - General & Miscellaneous History, Colonialism & Imperialism, Exploration & Discovery, Drama - Literary Criticism, English Literature, United States History - Southern Region, 17th Century British History - General & Miscellaneous, American Colonial History - Exploration & Early Settlers, American Colonial History - Great Britain - American Colonies, American Colonial History - State & Local History, Americas - Colonial History, Americas - Exploration & Discovery, British Imperialism & British Empire - History, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Americas History, Outdoor & Adventure Sports - Outdoor Skills, Sailing - Narratives, Shipwrecks & Underwater Exploration, Virginia - State & Local History
"At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narrative." -Nathaniel Philbrick
Merging maritime adventure and early colonial history, A Brave Vessel charts a little-known chapter of the past that offers a window on the inspiration for one of Shakespeare's greatest works. In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail for the New World aboard the Sea Venture, only to wreck on the shores of Bermuda. Strachey's meticulous account of the tragedy, the castaways' time in Bermuda, and their arrival in a devastated Jamestown, remains among the most vivid writings of the early colonial period. Though Strachey had literary aspirations, only in the hands of another William would his tale make history as The Tempest-a fascinating connection across time and literature that Hobson Woodward brings vividly to life.
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