"Jamestown, 1607"

This well reseached book covers the entire story of the Jamestown Settlement from the colonists arrival, their difficult first years, and their struggles with the Indians.  From this unimpressive beginning the colony grew to become the center of a new tobacco industry, the meeting place of America's first representative assembly and the landing place of the first Africans in the New World.  Includes a time-line, list of Algonquin words that became English words, and suggestions for additonal reading and internet sites.  Illustrated throughout with black and white prints and maps.

Hardbound.  98 pages.  Grades 4-7.