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Mayflower:

A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Google eBook)
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Penguin, May 9, 2006 - History - 480 pages
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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Review: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

User Review  - Matt - Goodreads

When it comes to American history, we have a tendency towards reduction. We cherish the myth over the reality; the bombastic over the subtle; the simple over the complex. In modern media terms, we ... Read full review

Review: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

User Review  - Francis Gahren - Goodreads

In this remarkable effort, National Book Award–winner Nathaniel Philbrick (In the Heart of the Sea) examines the history of Plymouth Colony. In the early 17th century, a small group of devout English ... Read full review

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Contents

List of Maps
The Two Voyages
PART I
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
Part IV
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
EPILOGUE

CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
Part II
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
Part III
CHAPTER TEN
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Picture Credits
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

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.

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