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He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He was captured by pirates - twice - and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved seconds before the noose dropped over his head. And all this happened before he was thirty years old. This is Captain John Smith's life. 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. Now, in this first new 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. With A Man Most Driven Firstbrook delivers a riveting, enlightening dissection of this mythology-making man, England's arrival on the world stage, and the invention of America.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: historical, political & military

• Plný název: Man Most Driven
• Podnázev: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Invention of America
• Autor: Peter Firstbrook
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 432
• EAN: 9781851689507
• ISBN: 1851689508
• ID: 05109352
• Nakladatelství: Oneworld Publications
• Hmotnost: 656 g
• Rozměry: 237 × 159 × 35 mm
• Datum vydání: 06. November 2014

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