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The Mayflower Generation : The Winslow Family and the Fight for the New World, Hardback Book

The Mayflower Generation : The Winslow Family and the Fight for the New World Hardback

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Selected by The Times as a History Book of the Year 2017 and The Tablet as a Book of the Year 2017The voyage of the Mayflower 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 Mayflower story 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. Edward Winslow, an apprentice printer born in Worcestershire, 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.

The Mayflower Generation is 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.

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