The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World

If you want to know the story without all the political issues floating around, read this and William Bradford's book. This book gives an account that starts with the Mayflower voyage and continues until things went sour 50 years later with King Phillip's War. I think it's a fair accounting of all that happened and the relationships that were formed between the Native Americans and the Mayflower passengers. Like Nathaniel Philbrick states in the preface, "It's the story we need to know". I have shared this book with several of my friends.

I purchased this book for my daughter (my kids are homeschooled), this book has been a wonderful surprise with it's wealth of informative information about the Pilgrims, their voyage, their interactions, and the first thanksgiving. Great for a book report.

Great insights to the early years of our country. The struggles, missteps, and hardships are something we all must know but it doesn't take away from America's true greatness.

Since he is in my line and he came over on the Mayflower it is extremely interesting. My direct line off the boat is William White. My mother started all this before she passed 3 years ago. As I read more and more about William White I don't know if she has the correct one. I guess there is one from Leiden and one from London. How do you split them up? Do you know a good book or any authority on this line? That means that our William was not married to Susannah Fuller. Any help out there? Sorry I have been busy and not been able to get through all the books I have bought as I broke a bone in my spine so I was under the weather until I had surgery and had cement put in the disc to glue it back together. I have gone though all the books and highlight things, but that is about all.

Everybody I the early 1600s had a very hard time in North America. The Native American with the introduction of European diseases and broken promises, as well as the European settlers with their lack of knowledge and poor supplies. This book gives an excellent description of the many hardships as well as the alliances that kept changing. Especially, the fact that alliances were often founded on personal friendships and upon who had momentum at the time.

This book is incredible and full of so much detail that is interesting to read; albeit slowly. Too much to take in with fast reading. If you have to read this book for an assignment, give yourself plenty of time. There are no spark notes or anything on this factual book. There are also two versions of this novel! Beware of possible versions out there with missing pages in the middle. Maybe it was a fluke with me, but my new soft-bound copy purchased through Amazon, it was missing almost 75 pages in the middle and the binding did not reveal or indicate such. I actually emailed the publisher in order to see if there was a production run problem and told them about my book, but I never heard back from them.

Loved Mayflower by same author so bought this for 11year old niece. She loves it. She’s not reading it straight through but because it has photos she reads what catches her eye. Fine by me! Just happy it interests her.

The book turned out to be a very engaging read for me. I have a Mayflower ancestor, and now have a much richer understanding of the experience of the pilgrims (both of their courage and of the devastation of the Native people). I was interested to learn that the Pilgrims admired Massasoit, the key sachem or leader with whom they had initial contact, and of their cooperative relationship. The situation degenerated in later years, and warfare and cruelty took over. This version was for young readers (ordered by mistake) but I still found it very worthwhile, and would recommend it for younger readers as well as adults who may want the shorter version.

Will give it to my friend who has joined a Quaker group.

Glücklicherweise halfen die Indianer in New England den Pilgrims, den ersten Winter zu überleben. Das Buch liest sich gut und ist informativ.

Watch it this is the children's version of a very good book I didn't realize it was for school children until after I purchased it wasn't very clear on the purchase page otherwise the normal version of this book is very very good. Required reading for

Excellent book