Mayflower A Story of Courage, Community, and War

by Philbrick, Nathaniel

• ISBN13: 9780143111979
• ISBN10: 0143111973
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-24
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

That simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communities and the country that would grow from them. Book jacket.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. ix
Preface: The Two Voyages	p. xi
Discovery
They Knew They Were Pilgrims	p. 3
Dangerous Shoals and Roaring Breakers	p. 35
Into the Void	p. 48
Beaten with Their Own Rod	p. 56
The Heart of Winter	p. 78
In a Dark and Dismal Swamp	p. 93
Thanksgiving	p. 104
Accommodation
The Wall	p. 123
A Ruffling Course	p. 140
Community
One Small Candle	p. 161
The Ancient Mother	p. 183
The Trial	p. 198
War
Kindling the Flame	p. 229
The God of Armies	p. 259
In a Strange Way	p. 284
The Better Side of the Hedge	p. 311
Epilogue: Conscience	p. 345
Afterword and Acknowledgments	p. 359
Mayflower Passenger List	p. 362
Notes	p. 365
Bibliography	p. 417
Index	p. 447
Picture Credits	p. 464
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