WEARE, NANCY V. — Plum Island the Way It Was

Newbury, MA: Newburyport Press, 1996. 2nd Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 1882266056. Trade PB. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the front endpaper. This is an oblong trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is one scrape to the front cover, and the spine ends have some light rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. "Plum Island appears as an unnamed island as early as Captain John Smith's map of New England. Various scholars have speculated on the nature of the earlier accounts of European explorers in the New World, with particular focus on the latter's surveys of the coastlines of Massachusetts, but Smith's account identifies Plum Island. He describes a harbor at "Angoam" (elsewhere "Aggawom", the Anglicised Native American name for the native village that preceded Ipswich, Massachusetts, and was destroyed by smallpox) as having "many sands" at its entrance." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good .