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Bibliographic Information
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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
First U.S. edition.
- Author
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Fraser, Rebecca.
- Publisher:
- St. Martin's Press,
- Pub date:
- 2017.
- Pages:
- xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
- ISBN:
- 9781250108562
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult nonfiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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974.402 FRA
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Adult non-fic hardcover
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Adult nonfiction shelves
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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
First U.S. edition.
Fraser, Rebecca.
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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America
First U.S. edition.
Fraser, Rebecca.
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Personal Author:
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Fraser, Rebecca.
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Title:
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The Mayflower : the families, the voyage, and the founding of America / Rebecca Fraser.
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Edition:
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First U.S. edition.
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Physical description:
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xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Contents:
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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.
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Summary:
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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.
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Summary:
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"A vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, whi traveled to America in search of a new world. 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 could comprehend. But the Mayflower story did not end with these Pilgrims' arrival on the coast of New England or their first uncertain years as settlers. Rebecca Fraser traces two generations of one ordinary family and their extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America. Edward Winslow, an apprentice printer, fled England and then Holland for a life of religious freedom and opportunity. Despite the intense physical trials of settlement, he found America exotic, enticing, and endlessly interesting. 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. Yet, fifty years later, Edward's son Josiah was commanding the New England militias against Massassoit's son in King Philip's War. [This book] is an intensely human portrait of the Winslow family written with the pace of an epic. 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."--Dust jacket flaps.
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Personal subject:
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Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655.
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Personal subject:
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Winslow, Josiah, 1629?-1680.
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Personal subject:
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Winslow family.
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Corporate subject:
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Mayflower (Ship)
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Subject term:
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Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
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Geographic term:
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Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
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Geographic term:
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Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691.
