| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America. By Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith. (New York: Holt, 2008. xii, 322 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-8050-8654-6.)

The loss of the Sea Venture is among the most famous shipwrecks in history, for it inspired William Shakespeare to write his valedictory play The Tempest. Its contribution to history, however, is all but forgotten in the shadow cast by Captain John Smith's self-serving foundational account of saving the early Virginia colony. Lorri Glover and Daniel Smith have collaborated in a vivid, dramatic retelling of an alternative story of the rescue of the Jamestown settlers. The authors, who teach early American history at the Universities of Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively, have published books on social structure and family life in the early South. Drawing on long-neglected contemporary published sources and perhaps influenced by Shakespeare, in their turn, they have fashioned an exciting tale of a journey into fear, danger, loss, and recovery.

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