{"product_id":"the-mayflower-the-families-the-voyage-and-the-founding-of-america-paperback","title":"The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Fraser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is nothing sleep-inducing about the chronicle crafted by Ms. Fraser...There is more to the Pilgrims' story--more to American identity and character--than our Thanksgiving rituals and reveries.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe voyage of the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMayflower \u003c\/i\u003estory 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdward 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mayflower \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eREBECCA FRASER is a writer and broadcaster whose book, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Britain\u003c\/i\u003e, was described as an elegantly written, impressively well-informed single-volume history of how England was governed during the past 2000 years.' A contributor to the BBC History website, she is the author of a biography of Charlotte Brontë, and introductions to the Everyman editions of \u003ci\u003eShirley and The Professor\u003c\/i\u003e. She was President of the Bronte Society for many years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53057523876173,"sku":"9781250108579","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/dHFHb3RUUCtyUkhaNmFBNGJLMjdKQT09.webp?v=1766512538","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-mayflower-the-families-the-voyage-and-the-founding-of-america-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}