The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New EnglandPenguin, 2007 M04 24 - 336 páginas The most important personal accounts of the Plymouth Colony, the key sources of Nathaniel Philbrick's New York Times bestseller Mayflower National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick and his father, Thomas Philbrick, present the most significant and readable original works that were used in the writing of Mayflower, offering a definitive look at a crucial era of America's history. The selections include William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" (1651), the most comprehensive of all contemporary accounts of settlement in seventeenth-century America; Benjamin Church's "Entertaining Passages Relating to Philip's War 1716," an eye-opening account from Church's field notes from battle; and much more. Providing explanatory notes for every piece, the editors have vividly re-created the world of seventeenth-century New England for anyone interested in the early history of our nation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... the disposing of their provisions and such like affairs . All which was not only with the liking of the masters of the ships , but according to their desires . Which being done , they set sail from OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION 7.
... the disposing of their provisions and such like affairs . All which was not only with the liking of the masters of the ships , but according to their desires . Which being done , they set sail from OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION 7.
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... master of the lesser ship , complained that he found his ship so leaky as he durst not put further to sea till she was mended . So the master of the bigger ship ( called Mr. Jones " ) being consulted with , they both resolved to put ...
... master of the lesser ship , complained that he found his ship so leaky as he durst not put further to sea till she was mended . So the master of the bigger ship ( called Mr. Jones " ) being consulted with , they both resolved to put ...
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... master and his company , who were hired to stay a whole year in the country , and now fancying dislike and fearing want of victuals , they plotted this stratagem to free themselves ; as afterwards was known and by some of them confessed ...
... master and his company , who were hired to stay a whole year in the country , and now fancying dislike and fearing want of victuals , they plotted this stratagem to free themselves ; as afterwards was known and by some of them confessed ...
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... master and other officers of the ship to consider in time of the danger , and rather to return than to cast themselves into a desperate and inevitable peril . And truly there was great distraction and difference of opinion amongst the ...
... master and other officers of the ship to consider in time of the danger , and rather to return than to cast themselves into a desperate and inevitable peril . And truly there was great distraction and difference of opinion amongst the ...
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Selected Writings of Colonial New England Various. master affirmed that with a post put under it , set firm in the lower deck and otherways bound , he would make it sufficient . And as for the decks and upper works , they would caulk ...
Selected Writings of Colonial New England Various. master affirmed that with a post put under it , set firm in the lower deck and otherways bound , he would make it sufficient . And as for the decks and upper works , they would caulk ...
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From William Bradford | 107 |
From Edward Winslow | 143 |
From Thomas Morton | 154 |
From Mary Rowlandson | 166 |
From Benjamin Church | 212 |
Notes | 289 |
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