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A True Relation of. . Virginia, 1608; A Map of Virginia with a Description of the Country, 1612; A Description of New England, 1616; New Englands Trials, 1620; 1622; The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, 1624; The True Travels, Adventures, and Ohservations of Captaine John Smith, 1630; Advertisements for the Unexperienced Plant-ers of New England, or Anywhere, 1631; The Complete Works of Captain John Smith (1580&emdash; 1631), 3 vols., ed. P.L. Barbour, 1986.

The generall historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. NY: Reade Microprint, 1966. F229 .S633

Travels and works of Captain John Smith. Edited by Edward Arber. Edinburgh: J. Grant, 1910. F229 S655

| Top | Selected Bibliography

Barbour, Philip L. Pocahontas and her world; a chronicle of America's first settlement in which is related the story of the Indians and the Englishmen, particularly Captain John Smith, Captain Samuel Argall, and Master John Rolfe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969 .F234.J3 B38

- - -. The three worlds of Captain John Smith. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. .F229 .S7145

- - -. "The Earliest Reconnaissance of the Chesapeake Bay Area: Captain John Smith's Map and Indian Vocabulary." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 79 (1971); 280-302.

- - -. "The Earliest Reconnaissance of the Chesapeake Bay Area: Captain John Smith's Maps and Indian Vocabulary, Part II." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972); 21-51.

- - -. "Captain John Smith and the London Theatre." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 83 (1975); 277-79.

- - -. "Two 'Unknown' Poems by Captain John Smith." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 75 (1967); 157-58.

- - -. "On Considering the Feasibility of Establishing Key Spellings for Indian Place Names in the Index to The Complete Works of Captain John Smith." Papers of the Twelfth Algonquian Conference. Ed. William Cowan. Ottawa: Carleton Univ., 1981. 21-30.

Craven, Wesley F. "A New Edition of the Works of Captain John Smith." William and Mary Quarterly 29 (1972): 479-86.

Dolle, Raymond F. "Captain John Smith's Satire of Sir Walter Raleigh." Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole. Eds. Derounian Stodola and Kathryn Zabelle. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1992. 73-83.

Dupperman, Karen O. "'Brasse without but Golde Within': The Writings of Captain John Smith." Virginia Cavalcade 38.3 (Wint 1989): 138-43.

Emerson, Everett. Captain John Smith. NY: Twayne, 1993.

Gladsky, Thomas S. "John Esten Cooke's My Lady Pokahontas: The Popular Novel on History." Southern Studies 23.3 (Fall 1984): 299-305.

Gura, Philip F. "John Who? Captain John Smith and Early American Literature." Early American Literature 21.3 (Wint 1986-87): 260-67.

Hayes, Kevin J. Captain John Smith: a reference guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991. F229 .S7 H38x

Kupperman, Karen O. "'Brasse without but Gold within': The Writings of Captain John Smith." Virginia Cavalcade 38.2 (Autm 1988): 66-75.

Leary, Lewis. "The Adventures of Captain John Smith as Heroic Legend." Essays in Early Virginia Literature Honoring Richard Beale Davis. Ed. J. A Leo Lemay. NY: Franklin, 1977. 13-33.

Lemay, J. A. Leo. "Captain John Smith." The History of Southern Literature. Ed. Louis. D. Rubin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1985. 26-33.

McCary, Ben C. John Smith's map of Virginia: with a brief account of its history. Williamsburg, Va.: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corp., 1957. GA408 1612 .S54 M33

Read, David. "Colonialism and Coherence: The Case of Captain John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia." Modern Philology 91.4 (May 1994): 428-48. 

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