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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
 

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

by Nathaniel Philbrick

From the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea?winner of the National Book Award?the 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... (read more)

Top tags: history,  american history,  nonfiction,  colonial america,  pilgrims (all tags)

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MissDaisyAnne
  • Rated 5 stars

“Very interesting read, well researched, great author.”

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HeIsSailing
  • Rated 2 stars

“'Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War', by Nathaniel Philbrick. Finished reading 13 March 2008. 2/5 stars

Why oh why did I find this book, about one of the most fascinating times in American history, to be so dreadfully boring? I think it is the narrative style that the author brings to this historical account. There is not a single footnote in the text, so the style is aimed at being fast paced. Yet this narrative, almost story-telling style demands that the...”

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  • Rated 3.689655 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
  

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  • Lisa

    lisa said:

    “Lots of facts and information, too much maybe. Well researched but I found it presented in a dry, boring manner and I stuggled to maintain my interest to the end.”

    posted Sunday, June 1 2008
  • Hannah L

    hannah l said:

    “Excellent look into the real lives of the people who set America down our cultural road. Sometimes I wish we would have stayed British. The book portrays the hard-scrabble existence of the Pilgrims in stark detail - in addition to their complete hypocrisy about religious and cultural freedom.”

    posted Monday, December 10 2007
  • FatherOfHollywood

    fatherofhollywood said:

    “The history presented by Nathaniel Philbrick is very interesting and gives a person a more personable view of the Mayflower families and times (as well as of the Indians in New England). I found his information to be quite complete and filled in a lot of history that has not been published before that I know of.”

    posted Monday, October 29 2007
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