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Making Haste from Babylon

The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History

by Nick Bunker
Bernadette Dunne
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At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and women readied themselves for war, pestilence, or divine retribution. Against this background, and amid deep economic depression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile.
Within a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built a thriving settlement at New Plymouth, based on beaver fur, corn, and cattle. In doing so, they laid the foundations for Massachusetts, New England, and a new nation. Using a wealth of new evidence from landscape, archaeology, and hundreds of overlooked or neglected documents, Nick Bunker gives a vivid and strikingly original account of the Mayflower project and the first decade of the Plymouth Colony. From mercantile London and the rural England of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I to the mountains and rivers of Maine, he weaves a rich narrative that combines religion, politics, money, science, and the sea.
The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. Making Haste from Babylon tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America.

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    April 13, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9780307714473
      • File size: 528051 KB
      • Duration: 18:20:06

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Bunker's new account of the Mayflower Pilgrims, their world, and their extraordinary moment in history draws together surprising new strands from agriculture, the environment, and archaeology. Bunker's true love is the unexamined official records of seventeenth-century England, an area in which he has done groundbreaking work. Bernadette Dunne's warm, dramatic alto is easy on the ears. Her presentation is clear, but the extraordinary multitude of people, places, and concepts in this broad-spectrum history challenges the casual listener to keep it all straight. It's worth persevering. This story will change the way we think about the Pilgrims forever. F.C. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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