Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Paperback)
Description
Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award- winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as "spellbinding" by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. From the Mayflower's arduous Atlantic crossing to the eruption of King Philip's War between colonists and natives decades later, Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims a fifty-five-year epic, at once tragic and heroic, that still resonates with us today.
About the Author
Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the New York Times bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, which won the National Book Award, and Sea of Glory, winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize.
Praise for Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War…
Vivid and remarkably fresh . . . Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for our age. (The New York Times Book Review)
Gripping . . . a fascinating story, and one Philbrick tells very well. (The Boston Globe)
Startling [and] fascinating. (The New York Times)
Philbrick triumphs in Mayflower. (Los Angeles Times)
A signal achievement. Philbrick enlightens and even astounds. (Salon.com)
A splendid account of a nearly forgotten era in America's Colonial past. (The Baltimore Sun)
