A Great and Godly Adventure: The Pilgrims & the Myth of the First Thanksgiving - Hardcover

Hodgson, Godfrey

 
9781586483739: A Great and Godly Adventure: The Pilgrims & the Myth of the First Thanksgiving
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1586483730 ISBN 13: 9781586483739
Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2006

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The first Thanksgiving wasn't celebrated with turkey (there weren't any in Massachusetts) and didn't take place in 1621. Indeed the settlers, who probably didn't think of themselves as Pilgrims and were most certainly not revolutionaries against their king, were lucky not to be wiped out during their first winter. They probably would have been had the local Indian population not been affected even worse by disease and starvation.

In this fascinating history of America's favorite creation myth, peppered with delightful and unexpected insights, Godfrey Hodgson throws new light on the radicalism of the so-called Pilgrims, the financing of their trip, the state of the Indian tribes that they encountered when they landed and the reasons why Plymouth probably didn't have a rock.

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Godfrey Hodgson is currently a visiting journalism professor at the City University in London, and has just retired as director of the Reuters Foundation Programme at Oxford University, where for eight years he was a Fellow of Green College. He is the author of four previous books.

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Verlag
PublicAffairs
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1586483730
ISBN 13 
9781586483739
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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