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.
Rebecca Fraser details domestic life in the seventeenth century, the histories of brave and vocal Puritan women and the contradictions between generations as fathers and sons made the painful decisions which determined their future in America..
The Mayflower is an intensely human portrait of the Winslow family written with the pace of an epic.
Yet, fifty years later, Edward\'s son Josiah was commanding the New England militias against Massassoit\'s son in King Philip\'s War.
He built a home and a family, and his remarkable friendship with King Massassoit, Chief of the Wampanoags, is part of the legend of Thanksgiving.
Despite the intense physical trials of settlement, he found America exotic, enticing, and endlessly interesting.
Edward Winslow, an apprentice printer, fled England and then Holland for a life of religious freedom and opportunity.
Rebecca Fraser traces two generations of one ordinary family and their extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America.
But the Mayflower story did not end with these Pilgrims\' arrival on the coast of New England or their first uncertain years as settlers.
They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey and the new land that few of them could comprehend.
They had eighty casks of butter and two dogs but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing.
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. -- Wall Street Journal The Voyage of the Mayflower and the Founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history.
Fraser...
There is more to the Pilgrims\' story--more to American identity and character--than our Thanksgiving rituals and reveries.
There is nothing sleep-inducing about the chronicle crafted by Ms.
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
