Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
#1342 of 3,809 books · #527 in History
Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for History (2007) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2006).
How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of In the Hurricane's Eye and Valiant Ambition 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 history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communites and the country that would grow from them.
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- Penguin
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- 9781101218839
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Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryShortlistedMajor(2007)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryShortlisted(2006)
Other awarded books from Nathaniel Philbrick
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