Shortly after the founding of the Jamestown colony, Alan Shaw and his young wife Meg came from Scotland to try their luck in America. Twenty years later, in 1650, their tobacco plantation near Chesapeake Bay in Virginia was thriving so well that they named it "Shaw's Fortune." In a brief, simple text and many meticulously detailed and accurate drawings, Edwin Tunis has re-created the world of the Shaw family and the people who lived and worked on their plantation.

By 1752 Shaw's Fortune had become a large and elegant plantation, How the Shaw family lived, studied, worked, and played in over 150 years of colonial plantation living is recorded in this beautiful book. Edwin Tunis is well known for his carefully researched and superbly illustrated books for older readers. Here for the first time he brings to a younger audience a lively re-creation of an important and colorful period of early American life.

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