Mayflower
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"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.
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Just the kind of history I don't care for – endless, tedious details about battles. Enjoyed first third or so of the book, but disappointed by the rest.
I was listening to this this summer, and I also have a hard copy. I appreciate how it shows me how much the Puritans were constantly negotiating with, interacting with, and vulnerable to their indigenous neighbors. I did not realize until I started that he began by looking at Metacom‘s war. He realized that he needed to go back to see what went wrong. I stopped listening on the verge of the war, but feel that I have enough to improve my lectures.
