Pocahontas and Powhatan Dilemma

" There are few chapters in American history less understood than Pocahontas. Camilla Townsend's fascinating new book has rescued Powhatan's daughter from both myth and mistakes. By applying the insides of recent scholars to the contemporary texts she knows so well. Townsend has done more than provide a brief biography of a crucial figure. She has made Pocahontas understandable to a twenty-first- century audience, and she has done so with elegant and spare prose. Her book should be read by everyone interested in the early colonial era or the Native American Past." (quoted from Peter Mancall, University of Southern California, as printed on the backcover)