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Big Chief Elizabeth
the adventures and fate of the first English colonists in America
By Milton, Giles
- ISBN
- 978-0-37426-501-4
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2000
Milton, the author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg, tells the story of the first two English colonies, Roanoke and Jamestown, through a one-dimensional Elizabethan perspective. The book celebrates the roles played by Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh and portrays the Native Americans, with the exception of Manteo and Pocahontas, as unprincipled savages who massacred the survivors of the Roanoke colony while pretending to assist the English in their quest for thei...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
