John Smith

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle">The Elizabethans and America: Part II -- The fate of the Virginia Colony rested on the endurance of adventurers, the financing of London merchants, and the favor of a courtier with his demanding spinster Queen.</span> </span></p>

<p>Where the written word leaves off, the spade must often take over. A well-known archaeologist relates what the earth has revealed about the first permanent British colony in America</p>

<p><span class="deck"> It saved the early Colonists from starvation, it has caused men to murder each other, it used to be our most democratic food—in short, an extraordinary bivalve</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">If the colony had collapsed, England might not have been established as the major colonial power in North America.</span></p>

<p>The archaeologist who discovered the real Jamestown debunks myths, and answers age-old mysteries about North America's first successful English colony.</p>