Profit in silk and spices lured them into Arctic straits, but the
chilling reality of the Little Ice Age blocked their passage. And
so Henry Hudson and his mutinous crew turned westward armed with
vague charts and supposed sightings of the Indian Ocean across a
narrow sandy isthmus. Upon their arrival, crowds of curious
Manhattans greeted them in canoes made from tree trunks. Dressed in
animal skins and mantles woven of turkey feathers, they offered
corn, beans, oysters, tobacco, hemp, grapes and pumpkins in trade
for cloth, metal tools and trinkets. Mining contemporary sources,
historian Kevin W. Wright has carefully reconstructed the native
world that Henry Hudson encountered during his fateful voyage of
1609. In so doing, he dispels the fog of nineteenth and twentieth
century myths to rediscover the North Americans of the Middle
Atlantic Coast. Describing their original homelands and culture in
great detail, he brings the panorama of culturally diverse native
societies to life. These were truly the First Americans, inclined
to live almost all equally free. Could their natural democracy lie
at the heart of the American spirit? The Hudson Quadricentennial
marks the birth of the Dutch colony of New Netherland upon the
Hudson and Delaware Rivers and the dawn of history for Delaware,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut. But as early as
1656, Dutch commentator Adri]n van der Donck wondered how
Christopher Columbus or Amerigo Vespucci could have discovered a
country that was never lost? Through these pages readers step back
in time for a visit with ancient Algonquian and Iroquoian
communities of Native Americans, including the original Manhattans,
the Minisinks of Bachom's Country, the Lenape of the Schuylkill
estuary, the Mahicans, Susquehannocks, Mohawks and others whose
names have been lost in the mists of time. 1609: A Country That Was
Never Lost includes a bibliography, extensive end notes, and a very
comprehensive index. It is destined to become a classic resource
for anyone who enjoys Native American culture and history,
especially in the New Jersey and New York areas.
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