D. P. Lafayette’s Reviews > Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin > Status Update

The book progresses in a back and forth between the colony/settlement affairs at Jamestown and the shipwrecked crew at Bermuda. There is at least an expectable cadence of the narrative from approx. 220 to 339. Stephen Hopkins is notable at this point in the narrative — reminiscent of a Wallace moment in Scotland — where his loneliness is prominent in his plea for liberty at Bermuda.

Eh… more so the construction of the narrative than the content itself is distracting. There are persistent timeline changes that feel more like tangents than a coloring of the narrative. Nothing is more cumbersome than reading a historical narrative that cannot keep to a clear timeline. The book doesn’t even include a timeline…