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  • The Weight of Smoke (Vol. 1 of In the Land of Whispers) - eBook

The Weight of Smoke (Vol. 1 of In the Land of Whispers) - eBook

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ForeWord Magazine Book-of-the-Year Finalist for Historical Fiction


Four hundred years after the founding of Jamestown, the lives of Captain John Smith, Powhatan, and Pocahantas assume their true dimensions in a far-ranging saga of the beginnings of the British Empire, and in particular how the English came to the New World to create a Utopia, and instead founded a slave state. . . .

   Presented as the final work of the famous explorer and author, Captain John Smith, The Weight of Smoke recounts the disastrous first eighteen months of the Jamestown Colony, 1607-1609; but entwined with the colony's fractious beginnings are the adventures of Sir Francis Drake, retold around the campfires by an old alchemist, Jonas Profit, who sailed the Spanish main with Queen Elizabeth's pirate. Drake is the abiding spirit as Smith is initiated into greatness. In Jamestown, Smith finds himself at the center of a desperate struggle for survival, a struggle that will involve him in the mysteries of this unknown land. Appropriately, these tales are told in a language rich with metaphorical power and flavored with Elizabethan authenticity.


NEW: An audiobook edition is available through Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Weight-Smoke-Library-Land-Whispers/dp/198274944X/

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For the clothbound edition, go here. Sewn, jacketed, 392 pags, 6 x 9". 2006, 978-0-929701-80-6

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