The Mayflower Pilgrims: Sifting Fact from Fable

by Derek Wilson

Book Overview

The voyage of the 'Pilgrim Father' from Plymouth, England, and their settlement in Plymouth, New England, is iconic. Unfortunately. Why unfortunately? Because icons both simplify and glamorize. The Mayflower story is a gilded myth, a historical episode seen through the distorting lens of nationalism. Of all the accounts of New World colonization in the 16th/17th centuries this is the one that has come to typify those qualities today's US citizens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0281079129
• ISBN13: 9780281079124
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"