Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War
"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year
With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.
How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communites and the country that would grow from them.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year
With a new preface marking the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.
How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communites and the country that would grow from them.
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Having grown up near Plymouth, the Pilgrim story was engrained in the geography of my home town and I thought I knew a lot about the group until I read this book. Philbrick opened up a whole new perspective on the early history of early European settlement, exposing how the arrival of the settlers and their reliance on Native Americans for survival ultimately exacerbated the balance of delicate Indian tribal politics. Philbrick takes us inside the complexities of the period's inter-tribal rivalries and pulls out the motivations of the different parties--who acted more frequently than not for their own self-interest and advancement. Eventually, all of this exploded in the exceptionally gruesome struggle of King Phillips War. Mayflower is a fascinating and riveting backstory to Thanksgiving.
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