HELLO,
COULD YOU GIVE THE TITLE OF THE BOOK ON JAMESTOWN THAT SHORTO WAS REVIEWING?
THANKS.
DFM
PS.
WHILST ON THE SUBJECT OF COLONIAL VIRGINIA AND JAMESTOWN, I WOULD LOOOOVE TO
SEE A DISCUSSION ON THE STARVING TIME. THERE SEEM TO BE SEVERAL DIFFERENT
IDEAS EMERGING ABOUT WHAT ACTUALLY KILLED ALL THOSE POOR SOULS....I'VE LONG
WONDERED HOW ON EARTH ALL THOSE FOLKS COULD HAVE DIED OF STARVATION WHEN THE
WOODS AND WATERS AROUND JAMESTOWN WERE TEEMNG WITH WILDLIFE. YES, THE
INDIANS WERE LURKING, PERHAPS, READY TO PICK THEM OFF IF THEY LEFT THE
SECURITY OF THE FORT BUT SURELY A DEATH BY INDIAN ATTACK WOULD HAVE BEEN
PREFERABLE TO DEATH BY STARVATION.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louise Bernikow" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 12:32 PM
Subject: northern bias


> i take it from the discussion so far that no one saw Russell Shorto's
review
> of a book about Jamestown some weeks ago in the NYTimes Book Review.
Shorto
> says the bias that has made "colonial American history" synonymous with
New
> England for so long arose because NE is "easier to sanitize" and fits more
neatly
> the myth of America's founding. I agree and have been provoked by the
> "sanitizing" to work on a historical fiction about tobacco brides and the
17th
> century= for which I have fruitfully been picking all your brains for some
time now,
> gratefully. Louise Bernikow
>
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