Bücher der Reihe The Virginia Bookshelf

This history of England's first ventures into the New World combines information gathered from excavations of sites with accounts from journals, letters and official records. The exploits of Sir Walter Ralegh, Captain John Smith, and the life and death of Pocahontas are illuminated.

When this work was first published in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title. It is indeed a history of Virginia from 1559 to 1946 - focusing on Tidewater, Richmond and the Northern Neck - but it shows that Virginia's story of itself depends on illusion and myth.