<![CDATA[Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War]]>

false <![CDATA[Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165462816m/4820.jpg 4820 19 From the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Seawinner of the National Book Awardthe startling story of the Plymouth Colony 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 groupsthe Wampanoags, under the charismatic and calculating chief Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, whose pugnacious military officer Miles Standish was barely five feet tallmaintained 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 historya history dominated right from the start by issues of race, violence, and religion. 461542 9 5 2006 Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War total:2714|5:28|4:46|3:36|2:10|1:1| 2714 10147 4242 697 4 6 false false Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 09:46:49 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 21:41:24 -0700 2008
(One of the most interesting things about Mayflower is how little of it actually dealt with the ship itself. The Pilgrims are settled (well, “settled”), and the Mayflower headed back to England...more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 20:51:02 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 08:11:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Oct 12 14:16:56 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 17:48:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false true Fri Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 08:30:46 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 08:49:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Aug 25 22:12:26 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 22:12:59 -0700 2008
Nathaniel Philbrick's remarkable "Mayflower" is everything you'd hope a history book to be: illuminating, lively, and authoritative. This was simply a terrific read, a fascinating glimpse into the events and people ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 16:13:42 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 20:39:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 07:27:05 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 07:52:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 02 13:38:50 -0800 2008 Wed May 07 10:29:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Aug 19 09:40:11 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 08:19:47 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 09:36:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 26 17:31:14 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 17:33:17 -0700 2009
This account of the Mayflower and the subsequent colonies in New England was balanced, detailed and quite readable.]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 22 07:13:16 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 07:34:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 07:26:20 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 07:37:28 -0800 2009 More than just a telling of the story of the Mayflower and the Pilgrims' voyage and their settlement in New England, it is the story of a great cultural clash: Europeans vs the native "Indians."

Nathaniel Philbrick shows readers w...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:47:41 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:47:41 -0800 2009 Mayflower rethinks the events and players that gave rise to a national mythology about Pilgrims living harmoniously with their Indian neighbors. Instead, Philbrick tells a story of ethnic cleansing, bloody wars, environmental ruin, and the deterioration of English-Indian relations. While he introduc...

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1) I have a hard time with straight, historical, non-fiction (gasp-I know, I should be better). This book was extremely readable. In fact, I couldn't put ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 07:10:15 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 07:50:21 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 17:36:28 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 17:37:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jul 28 18:30:42 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 19:16:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 12 19:28:07 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 19:33:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4820