Captain John Smith’s exploration of North America gave contemporary English readers a new view of the world. His impact on travel, exploration, and colonization is well known, but the extent of his influence on other fields of study has yet to be fully assessed. When I compiled my bibliography of secondary literature, Captain John Smith: A Reference Guide, some years ago, I found only a handful of references to Smith during his lifetime. With new ways of accessing early-seventeenth-century texts, more references to Smith from his contemporaries are starting to surface.

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约翰·史密斯船长和巨人队

约翰·史密斯船长对北美的探索使当代英语读者对世界有了新的认识。他对旅行，探索和殖民化的影响是众所周知的，但是他对其他研究领域的影响程度尚未得到充分评估。几年前，当我编撰中学文献参考书目《约翰·史密斯上尉：参考指南》时，我发现史密斯一生中只有很少的参考文献。通过使用新的方式来访问17世纪初的文本，史密斯同时代人对史密斯的更多引用开始浮出水面。