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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... tell what happened prior to their arrival in America and after the events recounted in Good News from New England . Notably lacking from the historical record is a Native American account of what happened in New England during the ...
... tell what happened prior to their arrival in America and after the events recounted in Good News from New England . Notably lacking from the historical record is a Native American account of what happened in New England during the ...
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... , and poems were written during and after King Philip's War , but no other single source provides so many telling and provocative details about how the war was actually fought . Without Church's Entertaining Passages , we X INTRODUCTION.
... , and poems were written during and after King Philip's War , but no other single source provides so many telling and provocative details about how the war was actually fought . Without Church's Entertaining Passages , we X INTRODUCTION.
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... following selections from his remarkable history of this group , known ever after as the Pilgrims , tell the rest of his story . THE FOURTH CHAPTER Showing the reasons and causes of their From William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation I.
... following selections from his remarkable history of this group , known ever after as the Pilgrims , tell the rest of his story . THE FOURTH CHAPTER Showing the reasons and causes of their From William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation I.
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... tell them that he hoped to help to cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end and to make merry with what they had ; and if he were by any gently reproved , he would curse and swear most bitterly . But it ...
... tell them that he hoped to help to cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end and to make merry with what they had ; and if he were by any gently reproved , he would curse and swear most bitterly . But it ...
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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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