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The Pilgrims and the Myth of the First Thanksgiving
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October 2006
On Sale: October 1, 2006
212 pages ISBN: 1586483730 EAN: 9781586483739 Hardcover
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A captivating revisionist history of the classic narrative
of settlement reveals that much that we think we know about
the Pilgrims is wrong— but that the spirit of their first
Thanksgiving survives The first Thanksgiving wasn't celebrated with turkey (there
weren't any in Massachusetts) and didn't take place in 1621.
Indeed the settlers, who probably didn't think of themselves
as Pilgrims and were most certainly not revolutionaries
against their king, were lucky not to be wiped out during
their first winter. They probably would have been had the
local Indian population not been affected even worse by
disease and starvation. In this fascinating history of America's favorite creation
myth, peppered with delightful and unexpected insights,
Godfrey Hodgson throws new light on the radicalism of the
so-called Pilgrims, the financing of their trip, the state
of the Indian tribes that they encountered when they landed
and the reasons why Plymouth probably didn't have a rock.
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