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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

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Book name: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (2024)
Category: History
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Pages: 461 pages
ISBN13: 0670037605
ISBN: 0670037605
Language: English
Publication data: May 9, 2006, 7 a.m.
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?

This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new book, the story of the Pilgrims does not end with the First Thanksgiving; instead, it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic and heroic, and still carries meaning for us today.

About the author

Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

3 books

Philbrick was Brown’s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978; that year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, RI; today he and his wife Melissa sail their Beetle Cat Clio and their Tiffany Jane 34 Marie-J in the waters surrounding Nantucket Island.

After grad school, Philbrick worked for four years at Sailing World magazine; was a freelancer for a number of years, during which time he wrote/edited several sailing books, including Yaahting: A Parody (1984), for which he was… Read more