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Review of Jamestown By Matthew Sharpe ISBN: 1-933368-60-8 “History repeats itself” is an old adage, and the basis of Matthew Sharpe’s Jamestown - a disturbing exploration of a potential future for America. Set sometime in the future, a group of explorers with names matching those of the original Jamestown set out for Virginia, in search of clean resources. John Smith and Pocahontas once again cross paths in the future, and the situations faced by Smith’s party and Pocahontas’s tribe mirror the past. At times disgustingly graphic, Sharpe takes readers deep inside the lives and minds of these futuristic settlers and Indians. Readers who do not think twice about our current rate of consumption of natural resources and disposal of pollutants on land and in water after reading this book are missing entirely a very important point. Although some portions of this novel may be difficult for readers to accept as a possible future, our actions today are making it highly probable. Because of the first-person journal entry style of the chapters, this book may be useful to instructors trying to humanize the historical characters of Jamestown. Limited use of current technology in the novel should make it easier for students to recognize similarities between themselves and the historical Jamestown people. Matthew Sharpe has offered history educators a potential “cult classic” because of the graphic nature of his descriptions of some of the more unseemly realities of the future Jamestown and Manhattan. |