Empires in the Forest: Jamestown and the Beginning of America

From the author and photographer who brought us a new genre of art book in Albemarle: A Story of Landscape and American Identity comes a new collaborative effort detailing the story of our nations birth: Jamestown and the Making of America. This beautiful work of photography and prose traces the ways in which American culture grew out of the conflict that characterized the first contact between Native Americans and Europeans. Expanding in their unique treatment of Albemarle County, the artists use photographs from our time to suggest both the ancient and recent pasts, creating a virtual experience from the Colonial era into modern times. Telling this great story in modern terms by dusting off the history to reveal the main players as fresh and alive today as they were then, Jamestown and the Making of America beautifully depicts a landscape synonymous with American history, from its tumultuous beginning through today.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Rivanna Foundation
Published: 10/09/2006
ISBN: 9780974270715
Pages: 207
Weight: 3.55lbs
Size: 10.10h x 12.40w x 1.10d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Gold Medal Winner

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 63