Pocahontas or The Nonparell of Virginia.

GARNETT, David.

Item Number: 126350

London: Chatto & Windus, 1933.

First edition of Garnett’s great biography of Pocahontas. Octavo, original speckled boards with gilt titles to the spine, frontispiece portrait of Pocahontas, fold map at rear. In near fine condition.

Pocahontas was a Native American woman, belonging to the Powhatan People, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia. Numerous places, landmarks, and products in the United States have been named after Pocahontas. Her story has been romanticized over the years, with some aspects which are probably fictional. Many of the stories told about her by John Smith have been contested by her documented descendants. She is a subject of art, literature, and film, and many famous people have claimed to be among her descendants through her son, including members of the First Families of Virginia, First Lady Edith Wilson, American Western actor Glenn Strange, and astronomer Percival Lowell.