{"product_id":"9781780747101","title":"A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America","description":"\u003cp\u003eEveryone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest — and a far more ambitious self-promoter, too, so reputed for his truculence that the pilgrims of the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e snubbed him when he offered them his services, though he was the unrivaled expert on America. Now, in the first major biography of Smith in decades, award-winning BBC filmmaker and author Peter Firstbrook ( \u003ci\u003eThe Obamas, Lost on Everest\u003c\/i\u003e ) traces the adventurer’s astonishing exploits across three continents, testing Smith’s own writings against the historical and geographical reality on the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eA Man Most Driven\u003c\/i\u003e , Firstbrook delivers a riveting, enlightening dissection of this mythology-making man and the invention of America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ONEWorld Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057060004080,"sku":"9781780747101","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780747101_p0.jpg?v=1763713848","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780747101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}