Editor, Jason Daniels will discuss his new book, Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal, or God’s Protecting Providence An Early American Castaway Narrative, co-edited by Amy Turner Bushnell, at the Florida Historical Society at our Library in Cocoa Village. 

Light refreshments will be available.  

Edited by Amy Turner Bushnell and Jason Daniels With a contribution by Jerald T. Milanich

First published in 1699, “Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal” is a firsthand account of the 1696 wreck of the ship Reformation, the castaway’s journey up the east coast of Florida, and their encounters with the Indigenous people living there. This narrative has become a valuable resource for historians, archaeologists, ethnographers, and literary scholars. Edited with a fresh perspective, this book also includes previously unpublished, recently discovered material from 1696, that predates the familiar version of this important work.