ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -It was first printed in 1624, and contains detailed accounts of the surveying of the coast of Virginia and New England by Smith, the founding of Jamestown, of Bermuda in 1612 and of the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1620.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1624 he published The General History of Virginia, his longest and most influential work. Smith’s General History of Virginia, like his other histories, was written not merely to record the settlement of North America but also to serve as propaganda, as an advertisement for the lands he had explored.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1612, Smith published A Map of Virginia: With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion. The book provides a map and a narrative that describe the Chesapeake Bay’s geography and the peoples living there.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (often abbreviated to The Generall Historie) is a book written by Captain John Smith, first published in 1629. The book is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, histories of the territory administered by the London Company.