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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Written by Nathaniel Philbrick

Narrated by George Guidall

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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic that is at once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.

The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native Americans as disease spread by European fishermen devastated their populations. Initially the two groups, the Wampanoags, under the charismatic and calculating chief Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, whose pugnacious military officer Miles Standish was barely five feet tall, maintained a fragile working relationship. But within decades, New England would erupt into King Philip's War, a savagely bloody conflict that nearly wiped out English colonists and natives alike and forever altered the face of the fledgling colonies and the country that would grow from them.

With towering figures like William Bradford and the distinctly American hero Benjamin Church at the center of his narrative, Philbrick has fashioned a fresh and compelling portrait of the dawn of American history, a history dominated right from the start by issues of race, violence, and religion.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMay 9, 2006
ISBN9780786581054
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick is a historian and broadcaster who has writen extensively about sailing. He is Director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies on Nantucket Island, and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. He was a consultant on the movie ‘Moby Dick’. He has lived on Nantucket with his wife and two children since 1986.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Extraordinary, spellbinding and enthralling, the author does the subject justice by unfolding the manifold layers of personalities and events within the first 50-odd years of colonial history by focusing on a handful of key characters, including Miles Standish, Benjamin Church and Church’s arch nemesis, the Native American “King Philip”.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Nathaniel Philbrick is a fantastic storyteller, making history feel less like its being told in boring textbook fashion and more like you’re being told a story from a family member.