Andrew Stroehlein on Nostr: I knew a bit about John Smith (1580-1631) in Jamestown, but I had no idea about his ...
I knew a bit about John Smith (1580-1631) in Jamestown, but I had no idea about his life before that... Fought against Habsburgs, then a pirate, then fought for other Habsburgs, then captured by Crimean Tartars and made a slave, then forcibly converted to Islam, escaped and roamed eastern Europe... What? What? What?
What's a good book on all this?
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