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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
Title:
The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
Author:
Fraser, Rebecca, author.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.

©2017
Physical Description:
xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary:
Draws on contemporary documents to examine the lives of an ordinary family, the Winslows, made less ordinary by their responses to the challenges of the New World after their passage on the Mayflower.
Language:
English
Contents:
Prologue: 1676 -- Droitwich -- Leiden -- Leaving Holland -- The voyage -- Land -- Massasoit -- The building of "our town" -- Good farms -- Massachusetts begins -- The Pequot War -- The Pan-Indian Conspiracy -- Leaving for London, 1646 -- Republican England -- Hercules -- Generational change -- The coming of war -- King Philip's War -- Penelope alone: the widow's bed "not priced" -- Penelope's final actions.
ISBN:
9781250108562
Format :
Book