"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."—
The New York Times Book Review
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History
New York Times
Book Review Top Ten books of the Year
With a new preface marking
the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower.
How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of
In the Hurricane's Eye
and
Valiant Ambition
on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the
Mayflower
and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communites and the country that would grow from them.