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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Durable Fire (1990)di Virginia Bernhard
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The story of Temperance Yardley, a newly married settler on her way to help establish a new colony in Virginia in 1609. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Some of the events were familiar to me (Bernhard tells us in her forward that she will stay true to known events, avoiding much of the romanticized history people may be familiar with) but some were new; e.g. the winter when Jamestown starved. There was so much death in the book--from killing, from disease, from starvation, from weather events--that I wondered why anyone would ever attempt to colonize the place. Of course, there were many deaths in Europe also.
Native American life was not romanticized either, and the leaders were portrayed as doing whatever it would take to survive. There was a certain level of naivete, or cultural differences which led to misunderstandings and mistrust. For example, why would leaders allow their children to board an English ship when there was fighting between the groups? Obviously they didn't believe anyone would take advantage of the children.
I did wonder at the low birth rate. In population studies I've done in the 1800's, families of a dozen children were common. Yet the women in Jamestown were not similarly producing a baby every year or so. Perhaps it was their poor nutritional status, or perhaps births weren't recorded unless the baby lived for a few years and thus the author didn't have documented births to include in her novel. She did end the book with many quotes from different writings which have survived to justify the events she wrote about. ( )