Joint Venture: The Paces of Jamestown - Softcover
It was a time of dire uncertainty for Richard and Isabella Pace, a youngcouple on their way to Jamestown in the colony of Virginia. Passingthrough London, they meet Shakespeare. Fleeing her angry family, theyjoined the Great Resupply Fleet of 1610. Forced to board separatevessels to avoid being spotted, their ships are dispersed by a hurricane.The pregnant Isabella arrives safely in the colony, but Richard's craft isrun aground off Bermuda.She experiences the Starving Time when Pawhattan imposes a tradeembargo on the "cut throat" English, but meets and is befriended byPocahantas. Richard finally arrives in Jamestown with his new friendJohn Rolfe to rejoin his Isabella and their new son George.With Rolfe,he ventures into tobacco planting, which does not prove successfuluntil a boat load of slaves are traded for provisions by Dutch seamen.The slaves are expert tobacco men. They are indentured. Richardcomes home with one named Hector. Isabella disapproves but adapts.They soon prosper and build a house across the James river.Afterwards relationships between planters and natives deteriorate.After Pawattan's death and burial the natives attempt to massacre thecolonists on Good Friday. Richard and Isabella survive.
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Anthony Dellaira is a writer and educator livingin Voorhees, New Jersey with his wife Ann, hisdog Max and three feral cats. He has had anumber of stories published in literary magazinesand several of his plays were given stagedreadings at the Playwr ight s Workshop andSociety Hill Playhouse in Philadelphia. He is theauthor of the novel Nothing Wonderful and hashad several articles published in the Mensa Bulletin. He is a twelfthgeneration descendent of Ri chard and Isabella Pace, the maincharacters in this novel, who settled in Jamestown in 1610.
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- Publication date2007
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