Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award? winning <i>In the Heart of the Sea</i>, hailed as ?spellbinding? by <i>Time</i> magazine. In <i>Mayflower</i>, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the <i>Mayflower</i> and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. From the <i>Mayflower</i>?s arduous Atlantic crossing to the eruption of King Philip?s War between colonists and natives decades later, Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims a fifty-five-year epic, at once tragic and heroic, that still resonates with us today.