The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America (Fraser Rebecca)(Paperback)

From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world."There is nothing sleep-inducing about the chronicle crafted by Ms. Fraser...There is more to the Pilgrims' story--more to American identity and character--than our Thanksgiving rituals and reveries." --Wall Street Journal

The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly-equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had eighty casks of butter and two dogs but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing. They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey and the new land that few of them
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