Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America (Hardcover)

from RaucousRain

This is a very good book! It is chock full of historic facts, yet the well-researched story flows quite smoothly. It is a tale that is uniquely American, and I found "Thanksgiving : The Pilgrims' First Year in America" to be an extremely engaging read. It is a story of Americans, some of whom wer...

from Darcia

Having grown up in Massachusetts, the Pilgrims, the Mayflower, and Plymouth Plantation were a large part of my education. After reading this book, I realized how very selective that education had been. Cheney tells the story of the first 102 men, women and children who came to Plymouth from Engla...

from bunkie68

I received this book through the Member Giveaway program. It's a thoroughly enjoyable telling of the Pilgrims' journey to America and the events preceding and leading up to the first Thanksgiving celebration. The author's style is very readable, almost conversational, but not so casual that you m...

from BarbaraNYC

This is an absolutely fantastic book. I recommend it to everyone. I will be back to write an actual review and tell everyone why they really would love this book as much as I did!!!

from awolfe

Wonderful and well researched story of the first pilgrims trip to America. The book starts well before the first Thanksgiving. The book is well written and does not bore the reader which so many of our history books tended to do in school. The story is about live on ship and on land from the docu...