Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History, (Paperback)

from TerriBooks

If the last time you thought about the Mayflower and the Pilgrims was elementary school, wow - here's the grown-up story. This is a fascinating, detailed, thoroughly researched, and painfully exact book. Unfortunately, the bigger story that grabbed my attention was often overwhelmed by the sheer ...

from snash

I've read several books about the Mayflower and the Pilgrims. This contained lots of information lacking in others. The motivating conditions in England and Europe, the ongoing interaction between the colony and England, and the contribution of economic and political factors in Plymouth's foundin...

from antiquary

Interesting for putting the well-known Mayflower story in a broader context of both European history (trhe Dutch Revolt, the Seige of La Rochelle) and the American background (the Abenaki and other Native peoples, the importance of the beaver fur trade.)

from mojomomma

This book was packed with details, giving the reader the full-blown (excrutiating?) details about the economic, social, cultural, political, nautical and even astronomical conditions that the Puritans/Separatists found themselves in the late 16th and early 17th century England. A number of these ...

from gayla.bassham

Interesting but oddly organized. I felt like it kept switching back and forth between topics and I kept getting lost. Possibly this had to do with my attention span more than anything else.