Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
by Nathaniel Philbrick
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Author: Nathaniel PhilbrickEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-24
ISBN: 0143111973
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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- ISBN13: 9780143111979
- Condition: New
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Book Review: very enjoyable read
Summary: 5 Stars
I find it difficult to find books I greatly enjoy. This was one which did indeed captivate my interest. I found it educational and very readable. I had just read 'Shogun'(a well-researched novel) about Japan during the same time period, so I was primed for a book about the 1600's in a different part of the world. As someone else said, the final third of the book was about King Philip's War, so you have to enjoy reading about wars, as I do. However, I don't enjoy legendary descriptions, but instead those which appear to simulate reality, although I realize everyone's reality is somewhat different from everyone else's. I felt that the author took great pains to make descriptions as close to reality as possible. I was bowled over by the amount of research he did. Here's an excerpt of something I found interesting: "A Puritan believed it was necessary to venture back to the absolute beginning of Christianity...Hymns were also judged to be a corruption of God's word..instead sang scrupulously translated psalms (from the Bible)....Puritans refused to kneel while taking communion, since there was no evidence the apostles had done so during the Last Supper...." I found the book to be filled with pearls like this.
Summary of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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.
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