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Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas and how she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown Colony would certainly have failed. Yet Smith used to be a much more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggestand a much more ambitious self-promoter, too, so reputed for his truculence that the pilgrims of the Mayflower snubbed him when he offered them his products and services, despite the fact that his 1614 map of New England (which he named) made him the unrivaled expert on The us.
Now, within the first major biography of Smith in decades, award-winning BBC filmmaker and creator Peter Firstbrook traces the adventurer’s astonishing exploits across three continents, testing Smith’s claimed biography against the historical and geographical reality at the ground. A Man Most Driven delivers an enlightening dissection of this mythology-making man and the founding of The us.