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Program Type: Audiobook; Unabridged
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Narrator:
George Guidall
Publisher:
Penguin Audiobooks, 2006
Length: 12 hours and 39 min.
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"Impeccably researched and expertly rendered,
Philbrick's account brings the Plymouth Colony and its
leaders...vividly to life. More importantly, he brings
into focus a gruesome period in early American history."
(Publishers Weekly)
From
the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the
first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New
England has become enshrined as our most sacred national
myth. Yet, as best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick
reveals in his spellbinding new book, the true story of
the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of
piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic that is at
once tragic, heroic, exhilarating, and profound.
The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in
Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native
Americans as disease spread by European fishermen
devastated their populations. Initially the two groups,
the Wampanoags, under the charismatic and calculating
chief Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, whose pugnacious
military officer Miles Standish was barely five feet
tall, maintained a fragile working relationship. But
within decades, New England would erupt into King
Philip's War, a savagely bloody conflict that nearly
wiped out English colonists and natives alike and
forever altered the face of the fledgling colonies and
the country that would grow from them.
With towering figures like William Bradford and the
distinctly American hero Benjamin Church at the center
of his narrative, Philbrick has fashioned a fresh and
compelling portrait of the dawn of American history, a
history dominated right from the start by issues of
race, violence, and religion.
©2006
Nathaniel Philbrick; (P)2006 Penguin Audio, a division
of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., and Recorded Books, LLC.
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