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A wide range of books are being published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown. This selection includes those focusing on the recent archaeological investigations.

Jamestown Rediscovery 1994-2004 by William M Kelso with Beverly A Straube (APVA Preservation Virginia, 2004) $19.95 ISBN: 0917565134
Jamestown Rediscovery 1994-2004 is the eighth in a series of updates on the historical and archaeological research known as APVA Jamestown Rediscovery. This volume provides a synopsis of the previous three seasons of excavation and a summary of what went on before.

Jamestown, The Buried Truth by William M Kelso (University of Virginia Press, 2006) £18.50
In Jamestown, The Buried Truth, William Kelso takes us literally to the soil where the Jamestown colony began, unearthing the James Fort and its contents to reveal fascinating evidence of the lives and deaths of the first settlers, their endeavours and struggles, and their relationships with the Virginia Indians. He offers a lively but fact-based account, framed around a narrative of the archaeological team's exciting discoveries.
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The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Belknap Press, 2007) £15.53
Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, Karen Kupperman shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work. Indeed, the structures and practices that evolved through trial and error in Virginia would become the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth. Capturing the stark reality of Jamestown - for Indians and Europeans alike - through the words of its inhabitants as well as archaeological and environmental evidence, Kupperman re-creates these formative years with astonishing detail.
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A Savage Kingdom: Virginia and the founding of English America by Benjamin Woolley (HarperPress, 2007) £25
Retitled Savage Kingdom: The true story of Jamestown, 1607, and the settlement of America for the US market, this book tells the story of Jamestown through the personal experiences of the individuals who founded it.
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