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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.22
EAN: 9780143111979
ISBN: 0143111973
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: April 24, 2007
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Editorial Review:
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 Mayflowers arduous Atlantic crossing to the eruption of King Philips 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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hard to stay interested
To me the book concentrated much more on the various Indian tribes and not enough on the passengers of the Mayflower. If you are interested in the History of New England Indian tribes this book is for you.
Rating: - Detailed and well written
Philbrick has done a wonderful job here of telling the story of Plymouth colony in such great detail, truly bringing to life these men (and some women) from nearly 400 years ago.
The book covers the planning stages of the Mayflower voyage and goes through King Philip's War. Most of the book focuses on the first year and the war, and the details and storytelling are amazing. And Philbrick does a great job of describing the erosion of the relationship between the colonists and the Indians, ... Read More
Rating:  - I Enjoyed This Book Until . . .
I realized that a lot of what is written comprises of thick paraphrasing and prolific quoting from well-known as well as obscure primary texts. Philbrick just extracted the history from primary source material and dropped them into his own book. This book serves as a great primer, but reading the original accounts from people like Nathaniel Morton's New-England Memorial, Winthrop's Of Plimouth Plantation serves you one better with better results. Of Morton, here is a quote:
"Which he desired. ... Read More
Rating: - a savage history
Fascinating first half that makes for highly recommended reading. I felt educated and filled with wonderment how the english settlers facing danger and diesese at every turn, relied on their faith and perservered to allow later generations to prosper in New England and beyond. The second half of this book outlined the wars with Indians and was hard for this reader to handle. I think it makes me believe that war is always a condition of man. Especially when higher spirtual ideas are set aside. Even the Indians ... Read More
Rating: - A Well Researched, Superbly Written Book
In this well researched, superbly well written book, Nathaniel Philbrick who wrote the brilliant In The Heart Of The Sea, tells us about the Pilgrims, where they came from, why they came here, how they landed at Plymouth in December 1620, how they managed to survive etc; and then he goes on to tell in more historical detail than I needed about King Philip's War (1675-6) when the ground of New England ran red with the blood of colonists and Indians. But there was more to this story than history for me because ... Read More
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