I became interested in Frederick Douglass in high school, for the most shallow of reasons: I saw his picture in my history book and thought he was awfully cute. Since then, he pops up here and there throughout my life and whatever I learn about him is fascinating. His narrative is no different. What...
Very little of this narrative was by John Smith and very little of it was about Pocahontas. This is definitely among the more dry pieces of colonial literature out there ... except for the few sentences covering cannibalism.