Books with title John Smith

This comprehensive new monograph on the influential British artist-filmmaker―renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world―contains essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife. Herbert's text provides an incisive overview of Smith's work over the past four decades while Christie examines Smith's oeuvre within the context of English eccentricity. Meyer's essay discusses Smith's film The Black Tower in relation to absence and abstraction while de Seife looks at cinematic scale through the prism of Smith's Gargantuan.The publication includes a complete fully illustrated filmography spanning 84 pages, with images and synopses from nearly fifty film and video works made between 1972 and 2012.Copublished with Mousse PublishingContributorsIan Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife

This biography introduces young readers to the life of Englishman John Smith. Readers learn about Smith's childhood, education, and the many battles he fought as a soldier for France, Netherlands, and Austria. Smith's meeting with explorer Henry Hudson is introduced. The book also explains that Smith sailed to North America for King James I of England, trying to find a waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Readers learn of Smith's bravery in the New World; his explorations of the Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac River, and the James River; and his claim that Pocahontas saved his life. Readers also discover that Smith saved Jamestown from failure. Smith's life after Jamestown is also discussed, as is his devotion to being a writer, a mapmaker, a trader, a leader, and an entrepreneur. The book explains that Smith is credited with mapping and naming New England. And, he is remembered as a writer, mapmaker, trader, and entrepreneur. Full-color photos, an index, a timeline, a map, discussion questions, bold glossary terms, and phonetics accompany easy-to-read text and allow readers to follow Smith's journeys.

In late December 1606, a party of Englishmen set sail for America, representing yet another effort by the English to establish a foothold in the New World. Twenty years earlier, a similar attempt with the Roanoke Colony had ended miserably, with all of its inhabitants completely disappearing. Yet Jamestown would ultimately succeed, due largely to the efforts of one individual Captain John Smith. A young man of only 27 years, Smith had already made a name for himself fighting battles from France to Constantinople. But his true destiny awaited him in America. John Smith narrates this intrepid adventurer's storied life, from his upbringing to the hardships he faced in the New World. Readers will benefit from the research features in the book, including informative sidebars, a bibliography and suggestions for further reading, and an index for quick reference.

John Smith is a member of a race of special human beings: the Sandrite. The Sandrite are not immortal, but they are very long-lived. They have been among us for millennia, but have no desire to conquer or rule us... or do they? They move among us, helping where they can; in some cases guiding us step-by-step as we move through history.John has two great loves in his life (other than the ladies!): space and politics. As a big fan of man's move into space, John has followed the American and Soviet space programs for decades. After the United States invades Iran, Russia and China pull their International Space Station occupants, thereby stranding the remaining American astronauts. Because of the political turmoil back on Earth, Mission Control tells them there won't be a rescue mission.As a political junkie, John steps into several political arenas with the intent of helping mankind through the unification of the entire earth. Beginning with the League of Nations, then the United Nations, he sees the need for unifying the world under one banner and one leader. Shortly after the American election of 2012, the beginning of the economic and political collapse of the world brings one man to the front with a plan to save mankind from the brink of disaster. As John put it, “It was as if the entire world was a theater on fire and all exits were chained shut.”The story picks up speed as John's adventures take him from France in the 1700s, to the International Space Station, to the Moon, Mars and beyond. See what is discovered on the first Mars expedition, learn the plan to terraform Mars and the lengths the Sandrite Council will go to keep their existence a secret. Travel with John on the first flight out of our own solar system, what he discovers and the price he must pay.Nearing the year 2400, John laments that there's nothing left to discover and that life no longer holds the excitement it once did. Having walked so close to the edge of revealing who and what he is for so long, the Council feels John has gone too far and take action to silence him after one too many close calls with discovery.Will their plan succeed?