| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
x, 438 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 420-433. |
| Contents |
Early American writing / Richard M. Dorson -- A voyage to New England / John Josselyn -- New England's plantation / Francis Higginson -- Sea FIsh / John Pory -- Doves hide the sun / John Clayton -- Wonderful antipathies / Increase Mather -- Bears / William Wood -- Wolves / John Josselyn -- The skunk / John Josselyn -- The porcupine / John Josselyn -- Turtles / Thomas Ashe -- The alligator / John Lawson -- The rattlesnake / John Clayton -- The horn snake / John Lawson -- The bat / John Lawson -- Eagles / Arnoldus Montanus -- Tobacco / John Josselyn -- The Jamestown weed / Robert Beverley -- Love flowers / Robert Beverley -- The tulip tree / John Lawson -- The cypress / John Lawson -- The ancient new-england standing dish / John Josselyn -- The power of rum / John Josselyn -- Ugly rumors / Christopher Levett, Council for Virginia, Robert Beverley, and Louis Hennepin -- A rat plague / John Smith -- A plague of weevils / Jasper Danckaerts -- A whoredom unmasked / Cotton Mather -- Of buggery / Cotton Mather -- A heretic bears a monster / John Winthrop -- Of railing quakers / Increase Mather -- Blasphemers, drunkards, and heathen / Increase Mathers -- God strikes the foulmouthed / A Jesuit Missionary; John Winthrop -- Ungodly servants / John Eliot -- A talky barber / Edward Johnson -- Trouble with Jades / Joseph Green -- Of new England's enemies / John Winthrop -- The starving time in Virginia and and the preservation through Sir Thomas Gates / John Smith; The council for Virginia -- Mortal wounds that do not kill / Cotton Mather; A Jesuit Missionary -- Escapes from the deep / John Smith; Father Edward Knott -- Heralds of war / Cotton Mather; Bacon's rebellion in Virginia -- Omens and signs in diaries / Samuel Sewall; Increase Mather -- Before and after death / Cotton Mather -- Actions of a dunghill cock / John Smith -- Necromacy with a pinnace / John Winthrop -- Specter ships / Noahdiah Russell; John Lawson; John Winthrop; Cotton Mather -- An injury / Increase Mather -- Lightning / Increase Mather; Samuel Danforth -- Falling into things / Samuel Sewall -- The capture of John Smith / John Smith -- The condition of the captives that from time to time fell into the hands of the indians / Cotton Mather -- A noteable exploit performed by a woman / Cotton Mather -- Captivity of Father Isaac Jogues among the mohawks / Father Isaac Jogues -- Memoirs of odd adventures and signal deliverancies in the captivity of John Gyles Esq. / John Gyles -- A narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson / Mary Rowlandson -- Powaw magic / Cotton Mather; William Wood; John Gyles; The old indian chronicle; Robert Beverley; John Lawson -- Devil worship / Edward Johnson; John Josselyn; William Wood; John Lawson; Louis Hennepin; Robert Beverley -- Myths / Jasper Danckaerts; Louis Hennepin; Robert Beverley; John Gyles -- Foolish Indians / John Winthrop; Cotton Mather; John Smith; The old indian chronicle; Cotton Mather; The old indian chronicle; Thomas Morton; John Lawson -- Smart Indians / Robert Beverley; John Lawson; The old indian chronicle -- A conference on the sale of rum / Thomas Budd -- The destruction of schenectady -- A conference at Georgetown on arrowsick island -- New England distraught / John Josselyn; Jasper Danckaerts -- The Archenemy / Increase Mather; Lawrence Hammond; John Higginson; Andreas Sandel -- The gathering storm / John Winthrop; A jesuit Missionary; A court recorder: Complaint of Susannah Trimmings; William Adams; Cotton Mather -- The awful struggle / Cotton Mather -- A dread secret weapon / Cotton Mather -- The battle at Salem / The examination and confession of Ann Foster; Trial of George Jacobs; Cotton Mather: Trial of Susanna Martin -- The Pequot war / John Underhill -- King Philip's war / William Hubbard: An omen -- The bravery of Captain Church / William Hubbard; Thomas Church -- Stratagems of the indian allies / William Hubbard -- Torture of an indian prisoner / William Hubbard -- The ambush of captain Lathrop / William Hubbard -- The death of King Philip / Cotton Mather -- The memorable action at wells / Cotton Mather -- The memorable actions at wells / Cotton Mather |
| Subject |
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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| ISBN |
0253280206 paperback $3.95 |
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