INVADING AMERICA

Author: David Childs

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Year published: 2012

Pagination: 306pp, 5 maps, numerous b/w photos & illustrations

Condition: New in card cover

---

The English Assault on the New World 1497-1630. Within a generation of Columbus's first landfall in the Caribbean, Spain ruled an empire in central and south America. In stark contrast, after a century of struggle, and numerous disasters, English colonising efforts further north had succeeded in settling the banks of one waterway and several bays. How and why progress was so slow and laborious is the central theme of this thought-provoking book. Using documentary evidence and vivid first-hand accounts, it describes from a new perspective the often tragic, sometimes heroic, attempts to settle on the American coast and suggests why these so often ended in failure.