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A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest
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Author
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Hobson Woodward.
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Publisher
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Viking/BOMC
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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6.25
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ISBN
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9780670020966
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Pages/Publication Date
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268/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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21276
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Description
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In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the Sea Venture, bound for Jamestown in the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship was separated from its fleet and wrecked on uninhabited Bermuda, a bountiful island paradise that its passengers would inhabit for nearly a year before leaving for their intended destination. As historian Hobson Woodward argues here, Strachey's meticulous account of the wreck, the castaways' time on Bermuda, and their arrival in famished Jamestown was vividly drawn and made ideal fodder to inspire Shakespeare's great shipwreck tale, one of his final masterpieces. "At once a penetrating work of literary analysis and a riveting historical narrative, Hobson Woodward's A Brave Vessel reveals the salty survival tale at the heart of Shakespeare's New World masterpiece, The Tempest."—Nathaniel Philbrick
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