The Mayflower Pilgrims: Sifting Fact from Fable - Hardcover

Wilson, Derek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0281079129 ISBN 13: 9780281079124

Verlag: SPCK Publishing, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

'Compelling reading' - Alison Weir

'A fresh and admirably unsentimental account' - Peter Marshall

The voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 has come to typify those qualities that many believe represent the best of America and the values it holds up to the rest of the world. And yet, if they lived today, the courageous men, women and children who made that journey would not recognize themselves in the romantic retelling of their story in popular books and movies of the last century or so.

So what were the motivating forces behind this momentous voyage? Derek Wilson strips away the over-painting from the icon to discover the complex range of religious, political and commercial concerns that led this group of hopeful but fallible human beings to seek a new life on the other side of the world.

A gripping investigation that unfolds like a detective story 'Mayflower400' is planning 'a series of major transatlantic and global events. . . linking our people and our communities through our shared heritage'; for more details visit http://www.mayflower400uk.com This fresh look at the legendary voyage separates the facts from the fantasies about the Pilgrim Fathers, and what in reality they achieved Throughout 2020 the UK, Holland and the USA will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower

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Derek Wilson is a renowned historian and the author of over fifty books, including The Queen and the Heretic: How two women changed the religion of England (Lion, 2018), Superstition and Science: Mystics, sceptics, truth-seekers and charlatans (Robinson, 2017), The Plantagenets (Quercus, 2011) and A Brief History of Henry VIII (Robinson, 2009), as well as critically acclaimed biographies of Charlemagne and Holbein.

Praise for Derek Wilson:

‘Wilson's account is masterly ... His book is stimulating and authoritative.’
John Guy in the Sunday Times

‘Scores highly in thoroughness, clarity and human sympathy.’
Sunday Telegraph

‘Brilliant, endlessly readable. . . vivid, immediate history, accurate, complex, and tinged with personality.’
Sunday Herald

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SPCK Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0281079129
• ISBN 13: 9780281079124
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Buchbär; info@buchbaer.de; ; Weberstr. 67; Osnabrück; 49084; Deutschland