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A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Viking
May 2006
480 pages
ISBN: 0670037605
Hardcover
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Historical
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of
the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New
England has become enshrined as our most sacred national
myth. Yet, as bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick
reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of the
Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and
sacrifice; it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once
tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound. The
Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth
Harbor during a period of crisis for Native Americans as
disease spread by European fishermen devastated their
populations. Initially the two groups --the Wampanoags, under
the charismatic and calculating chief Massasoit, and the
Pilgrims, whose pugnacious military officer Miles Standish
was barely five feet tall -- maintained a fragile working
relationship. But within decades, New England would erupt
into King Philip's War, a savagely bloody conflict that
nearly wiped out English colonists and natives alike and
forever altered the face of the fledgling colonies and the
country that would grow from them. With towering
figures like William Bradford and the distinctly American
hero Benjamin Church at the center of his narrative,
Philbrick has fashioned a fresh and compelling portrait of
the dawn of American history--a history dominated right from
the start by issues of race, violence, and religion.
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