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Book Review
| Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. By Camilla Townsend. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004. xii, 223 pp. $25.00, isbn 0-8090-9530-0.)
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| Despite the abundance of works that trace the history of early colonial Virginia and the career of the Powhatan "princess" Pocahontas, Camilla Townsend's brief new biography is a wonderful addition to the literature. Townsend brings new perspectives to bear on an individual who has been frequently portrayed, but seldom understood, over the course of the last four centuries. |
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