Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

About the book

Product Description National Book Award-winning historian and, New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick delivers a fresh, riveting narrative of Pilgrims and Indians struggling for peaceful co-existence. When Dutch urban life weakens their family life, English Separatists, follow God's leading and bravely cross the Atlantic. But after violent storms carry them far north of Hudson's River, they fight icy New England winds to build crude shelters. When half die of starvation and cold that winter, the weakened survivors are not ready for the specter of Indian attack. About the Author Nathaniel Philbrick is the National Book Awardwinning author of In the Heart of the Sea, Revenge of the Whale, Sea of Glory, and others. Philbrick has won numerous awards for his work, including the Massachusetts Book Award, the Albion-Monroe Award, and the New England Book Award; his book Mayflower was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. His book The Last Stand was named an ALA Notable Book and was the basis for a two-hour PBS American Experience film called Custers Last Stand. A graduate of Duke and Brown Universities, he currently lives in New England.