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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... ship ' was bought and fitted in Holland which was intended as to serve to help to transport them , so to stay in the country and attend upon fishing and such other affairs as might be for the good benefit of the colony when they came ...
... ship ' was bought and fitted in Holland which was intended as to serve to help to transport them , so to stay in the country and attend upon fishing and such other affairs as might be for the good benefit of the colony when they came ...
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... ship and all things ready ; and such of their friends as could not come with them followed after them , and sundry also came from Amsterdam to see them shipped and to take their leave of them . That night was spent with little sleep by ...
... ship and all things ready ; and such of their friends as could not come with them followed after them , and sundry also came from Amsterdam to see them shipped and to take their leave of them . That night was spent with little sleep by ...
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... 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 into Dartmouth and have ...
... 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 into Dartmouth and have ...
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... ship was partly by being overmasted and too much pressed with sails ; for after she was sold and put into her old trim , she made many voyages and performed her service very sufficiently to the great profit of her owners . But more ...
... ship was partly by being overmasted and too much pressed with sails ; for after she was sold and put into her old trim , she made many voyages and performed her service very sufficiently to the great profit of her owners . But more ...
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... ship , as appeared by their mutterings , they entered into serious consultation with 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 ...
... ship , as appeared by their mutterings , they entered into serious consultation with 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 ...
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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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