Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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glade1
of McLeansville, North Carolina USA on 4/27/2014
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glade1 of McLeansville, North Carolina USA on 4/27/2014 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Bought at Goodwill today. This one has been on my wish list for a while. Description from Amazon:
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 bestselling 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 fifty-five-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.
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 bestselling 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 fifty-five-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.
This is way more than just the story of the Mayflower. Using that incident as the initiation and focus for the next 50-75 years of history, Philbrick discusses not only the founding of the colony at Plymouth follows the path of the immigrants through King Philip's War.
He has a balanced look at the English and the Native sides of things, and clearly it is far more complicated than any holiday stories. There were Natives on both sides of the fight, and a variety of ideas about how to deal with Natives from the Englishmen. It is fascinating, if at times frustrating to keep up with everyone.
The tale is well written and easy for the lay person to follow - just lots of characters!
He has a balanced look at the English and the Native sides of things, and clearly it is far more complicated than any holiday stories. There were Natives on both sides of the fight, and a variety of ideas about how to deal with Natives from the Englishmen. It is fascinating, if at times frustrating to keep up with everyone.
The tale is well written and easy for the lay person to follow - just lots of characters!
Journal Entry 3 by glade1 at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA on Monday, August 28, 2017
glade1 at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA on Monday, August 28, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (8/28/2017 UTC) at Cone Health Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina USA
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