The Mayflower

by Kate Caffrey

Book Overview

This fascinating history of the pilgrims' experience on the Mayflower depicts both their voyage and their settling of Plymouth Plantation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442242485
• ISBN13: 9781442242487
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Right Title?

"The Mayflower" is about as complete an historical compendium as you'll ever want to read on a subject. Thoroughly researched, it's loaded with names, dates, anecdotes, and other trivia--some interesting, some not. And that's where the book bogs a bit: there may be too much data, at least for reading excitement. If the goal is a textbook and fact-based understanding of the matter, look no further. Caffrey's book is the Mayflower encyclopedia. If you're interested in the more recent writing trend toward historically accurate "faction," in which the author inserts more drama to make the reading more pleasurable, you may be disappointed. This book is extremely well written, but a little dry.Another minor matter is the title. While the ship is the early focus of the book, and Caffrey does return to the question of its final disposition in the last few pages, the meat of the text has little to do with the ship or the great voyage. This is a story about the Pilgrims themselves, of the Plymouth Plantation they founded, and of their Puritan existence and legacy. Any one of these three might have made a more appropriate title for the book.All in all, "The Mayflower" is a great choice for those interested in learning the truth about America's early history. It left me curious to read more about the other early colonies at Jamestown, Boston, and New York. --Christopher Bonn Jonnes, author of Wake Up Dead.