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First Printing; Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. B & W ; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2"; ix, 322 pages; Hard cover has green spine with gold lettering. DJ has faint rubbing; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with some b/w pictures. '.from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years, warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609---the largest fleet England had ever assembled---and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda - a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) that proved to be the turning point in the colony's fortune. 'Index.…