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Overview

In stunning prose, Nathaniel Philbrick evokes the drama of the voyage of the Mayflower and the eerie emptiness of coastal Massachusetts that greeted the Pilgrims. He tells how the settlers were able to gain the friendship of many powerful Native American leaders, including the charismatic Massasoit, and how they worked together to maintain peace. But the promise of the First Thanksgiving was broken with the next generation of leaders. Fifty-six years after the Mayflower's landing, a horrifying conflict, known today as King Philip's war, nearly wiped out the colonists and Natives alike, and forever altered the new country.

The Mayflower and the Pilgrims? New World is the perfect introduction for young readers to this epic story, at once tragic and heroic. Adapted specially for middle-grade readers, this book features a wealth of supplemental materials such as new maps and photographs, a time line, and a list of characters for added comprehension and accessibility.

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Adapted by the author from his National Book Award-winning adult version, this excellent history of the Pilgrims' voyage to and settlement in America details the privations of the early 1600s through King Philip's War in 1675 and 1676. The first Pilgrim families came from a Separatist congregation that had left England and settled in Leiden, Holland, because they could not worship as they wished at home. Since they could not afford the trip to the new world on their own, they contracted with a group of English investors called the Adventurers to earn back their travel and supplies through profits from the cod fishing and fur trades. These Pilgrims numbered about fifty of the 102 Mayflower passengers. The other passengers, referred to as Strangers, planned on improving their fortunes in the new world. The two month voyage ended at Cape Cod in mid-November, 1620. With their supplies badly depleted, the weary group spent weeks looking for a place to settle and finally reached the spot they named Plymouth on December 12. Disease, hunger, and harsh weather brought so much death to the settlement that by spring only fifty-two of the original 102 passengers had survived. Early encounters with the Indian population were mixed, but when the Pokanoket sachem, Massasoit, visited the Pilgrims, an agreement was struck that worked well for both groups. Other Indian tribes were less friendly and serious quarrels broke out, but for a number of years the Pilgrims and Indians coexisted. As new settlers arrived from England, though, and as the settlers established more towns in the area, the problems grew. In 1662 Massasoit's son Philip became the new sachem. The Indians' ability to feed themselves hadalready diminished as they sold land to the English in order to buy guns and other goods. Relations continued to deteriorate, and in 1675 the Indians began to kill settler's livestock and rob their houses. On June 23, an English boy shot and wounded an Indian and the Indians took it as a sign to begin their war against the English in earnest. The fierce and bloody war, which killed eight percent of the settlers' men and resulted in a loss of sixty to eighty percent of the Native American population through death, enslavement, and emigration to other tribes, lasted through the summer of 1676, ending with the death of Philip and most of his chief supporters. The clear, readable text should appeal to anyone who wants to learn more about U.S. colonial history. The book is extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs, drawings, and maps. The text is followed by a three-page time line, William Bradford's list of the original Mayflower passengers, a list of selected readings, and an index. Reviewer: Judy DaPolito
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Philbrick adapts his bestseller Mayflower: A Story of Community, Courage, and War (Viking, 2006) for young adult audiences here. Philbrick splits the book into three parts titled Discovery, which traces their journey and arrival; Community, which describes their relations with each other and the Indians; and War, which examines the causes and results of King Philip's war. Philbrick often refers to firsthand documents, explaining their significance in tracing the story though the generations of Pilgrims and Indians, providing a fair account of the interaction and conflict between the groups and why their early partnership collapsed into war. Philbrick uses a narrative style that does an amazing job of drawing in readers, keeping them captivated by a story that reads more like fiction than nonfiction. With only a few slow parts, the momentum carries the reader through at a steady pace. Details are introduced to the story commonly taught in texts to expand upon the basics, providing a more complete picture of early life and history in America. Added to this edition is a collection of helpful maps and pictures of various artifacts that the Pilgrims used, creating an even more vivid picture of the world the Pilgrims lived in. This book makes an excellent addition to the classroom or any bookshelf. Reviewer: Susan Hampe
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Abridged and adapted from Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Penguin, 2007), this volume highlights both the Pilgrims' determination to find and settle a home where they could worship freely and the perilous journey that it took to make that happen. In accessible prose, the author shatters the American myth of the landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving, instead describing how the Pilgrims first landed on Cape Cod, finding only sandy soil and seemingly hostile, terrifying natives. They eventually moved on to the shores of Plymouth Bay, encountering a more hospitable environment for settlement. Using William Bradford's Of Plimoth Plantation as a primary source of information, Philbrick brings to life many of the major figures from history, including Miles Standish, Benjamin Church, Squanto, and William Bradford himself. The various maps, reproductions of historical documents, photographs of significant locations, and illustrations all come together with the text to help separate fact from legend and create a realistic, readable portrayal of the Pilgrims and their first 50 years in America. General readers and students of American history will find plenty to interest them, as many of the encounters with the Native Americans are of dubious intent and usually quite bloody, though Philbrick is careful not to lay blame on any one group or person. An excellent addition to history collections.-Jody Kopple, Shady Hill School, Cambridge, MA

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This elegant, absorbing account of the first two generations of Pilgrims sets the record straight about the first Thanksgiving and the following five decades. The chronological narrative, shortened from Mayflower, Philbrick's 2006 work for adults, details the initial uneasy alliance of Pilgrims and local tribes. As more settlers arrived wanting land, tensions increased and finally the King Philip's War ensued, causing the death of about 70 percent of local Indians and eight percent of male colonists. The eye-opening descriptions make no bones of the brutality of the colonists, who slaughtered trapped women and children and triumphantly displayed enemies' heads on posts at Plymouth Colony. The author masterfully brings both sides to life with an evenhanded sense of their complex motives and cultural differences. The many quotes are usually attributed to a source in context, but there are no endnotes and only a limited reading list. A "List of Characters" and detailed timeline, along with well-captioned visuals and a series of maps, make the complicated narrative easy to follow. (Mayflower passenger list; index not seen) (Nonfiction. 12 & up)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780142414583
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/15/2009
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 120,996
  • Age range: 10 years
  • Lexile: 1170L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick, is a leading authority on the history of Nantucket Island. His In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award. His latest book is Sea of Glory, about the epic U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. His other books include Away off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890 (which Russell Baker called "indispensable") and Abram's Eyes: The Native American Legend of Nantucket Island ("a classic of historical truthtelling," according to Stuart Frank, director of the Kendall Whaling Museum). He has written an introduction to a new edition of Joseph Hart's Miriam Coffin, or The Whale Fisherman, a Nantucket novel (first published in 1834) that Melville relied upon for information about the island when writing Moby Dick.

Philbrick, a champion sailboat racer, has also written extensively about sailing, including The Passionate Sailor (1987) and the forthcoming Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor's Odyssey. He was editor in chief of the classic Yaahting: A Parody (1984).

In his role as director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies, Philbrick, who is also a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association, gives frequent talks about Nantucket and sailing. He has appeared on "NBC Today Weekend", A&E's "Biography" series, and National Public Radio and has served as a consultant for the movie "Moby Dick", shown on the USA Network. He received a bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Master of Arts in American Literature from Duke. He lives on Natucket with his wife and two children.

Biography

Champion sailboat racer Nathaniel Philbrick is one of the premier authorities on New England's Nantucket Island, and an all around aficionado of maritime activities. Ever since he published his first book, a short, humorous take on sailing titled The Passionate Sailor, Philbrick has been sharing that passion with readers. Whether exploring his beloved Nantucket or tracing tragedies and triumphs on the open sea throughout history, Philbrick is the writer of some of the most illuminating and harrowing histories to come sailing across bookshelves in the past decade.

While Philbrick broke into publishing with the lighthearted The Passionate Sailor, he truly established his role as a chronicler of Nantucket—the one-time whaling capital of the world—with his second book, Away Off Shore. Instead of focusing on the colorfully quaint legends that hardly scrape the surface of Nantucket's rich history, Philbrick chose to take a more sober look at the island and how it rose to success. He brought that same objectivity to subsequent books such as Abram's Eyes, which delves into the vast Native American population of Nantucket, separating folklore from historical evidence, and his breakthrough In the Heart of the Sea. Here, Philbrick takes a fascinating look at the legendary sinking of the Essex, a tale that would form the backbone of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick. If anything, the true story of a wayward ship's encounter with a giant whale is even more terrifying and gripping than anything in Melville's imagination. In the Heart of the Sea is at its core a tragedy rife with painful ironies, fatal decisions, cannibalism, and a final encounter with a furious sperm whale.

The key to this National Book Award winner is that it is told with all the flair and suspense of any fictional story. "What I really like is narrative-driven non-fiction," Philbrick explained to Barnes & Noble.com. "A story is important for anyone to engage with what happened in the past." Just as Philbrick used this tactic to relate the tragedy of the Essex, he used it to tell of the triumphant U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838 in Sea of Glory. No less engaging than its predecessor, Sea of Glory is almost like the yang to the shadowy yin of In the Heart of the Sea, gloriously recounting a grander ocean expedition than that of Lewis and Clark, a quest to map the entire Pacific Ocean that would lead to the discovery of Antarctica.

Philbrick's next book retells a story with which most American schoolchildren are familiar but only through a filter of benign Thanksgiving pageants. The story of the pilgrim's journey to Plymouth Rock told in Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War is quite a different tale. Philbrick was not exactly burning to revisit this well-traveled chapter in history, saying of the Mayflower's voyage, "what could be more boring?" However, once he peeled away the holiday wrapping, he discovered a dark web of violence, starvation, illness, death, and war to rival the tragedy of In the Heart of the Sea. It is as if the pilgrim and Indian's story, as well as their true nature, is being revealed for the very first time, with provocative depictions of a bloody-thirsty Miles Standish and a duplicitous Squanto.

The Library Journal boldly declared that Mayflower was "clearly one of the year's best books" of 2006, and it is certainly one of the most riveting, a historical work that reads like great fiction written by a master at the peak of his abilities.

Good To Know

When Philbrick was a young boy, his father, a professor of English literature with a focus on Maritime fiction, would tell him about the Essex's tragic sea voyage as a sort of grim bedtime story.

Nathaniel Philbrick served as a consultant on USA television's 1998 adaptation of Moby Dick starring Patrick Stewart.

    1. Also Known As:
      Nat Philbrick
    2. Hometown:
      Nantucket, Massachusetts
    1. Date of Birth:
      June 11, 1956
    2. Place of Birth:
      Boston, Massachusetts
    1. Education:
      B.A., Brown University, 1978; M.A., Duke University
    2. Website:
      http://www.nathanielphilbrick.com

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