Mayflower Stories. [With Plates.]
Author : Sarah M. S. Pereira (formerly Clarke.)
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Sarah M. S. Pereira (formerly Clarke.)
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Jean Van Leeuwen
Publisher : Dial
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780803711662
A boy and his family endure a difficult nine-week journey across the ocean and survive the first winter at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts.
Author : Rebecca Siegel
Publisher : words & pictures
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0711248265
Join the Pilgrims on their perilous journey across the ocean, as they start a new life in North America. This stunning book marks the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's voyage, with edge-to-edge illustrated scenes, interspersed with detailed maps, inventories and cutaways, along with engaging, narrative text to make this a history book to treasure and pour over time and again. Learn about the perilous journey, the crew and passengers, the cargo on board and what happened when they finally dropped anchor in Cape Cod. Meet the Wampanoag people and learn about how the Pilgrims' arrival changed their way of life. Atmospheric artwork and detailed scenes will spark your imagination as you discover the amazing true story behind the birth of a nation. Find out as if you were there: Who were the Pilgrims? Why did they want to leave England? Why was the journey so perilous? What was the Mayflower Compact? Who are the Wampanoag? How did the Pilgrims interact with the Wampanoag? What happened at the first Thanksgiving? What became of the Mayflower? This fact-packed children’s book includes a comprehensive timeline of events, an author's note, plus a glossary and ideas for further learning.
Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1476740194
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
Author : William Bradford
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : Eric B. Schultz
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 158157701X
King Philip's War--one of America's first and costliest wars--began in 1675 as an Indian raid on several farms in Plymouth Colony, but quickly escalated into a full-scale war engulfing all of southern New England. At once an in-depth history of this pivotal war and a guide to the historical sites where the ambushes, raids, and battles took place, King Philip's War expands our understanding of American history and provides insight into the nature of colonial and ethnic wars in general. Through a careful reconstruction of events, first-person accounts, period illustrations, and maps, and by providing information on the exact locations of more than fifty battles, King Philip's War is useful as well as informative. Students of history, colonial war buffs, those interested in Native American history, and anyone who is curious about how this war affected a particular New England town, will find important insights into one of the most seminal events to shape the American mind and continent.
Author : John G. Turner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0300252307
An ambitious new history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, published for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing In 1620, separatists from the Church of England set sail across the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Understanding themselves as spiritual pilgrims, they left to preserve their liberty to worship God in accordance with their understanding of the Bible. There exists, however, an alternative, more dispiriting version of their story. In it, the Pilgrims are religious zealots who persecuted dissenters and decimated the Native peoples through warfare and by stealing their land. The Pilgrims’ definition of liberty was, in practice, very narrow. Drawing on original research using underutilized sources, John G. Turner moves beyond these familiar narratives in his sweeping and authoritative new history of Plymouth Colony. Instead of depicting the Pilgrims as otherworldly saints or extraordinary sinners, he tells how a variety of English settlers and Native peoples engaged in a contest for the meaning of American liberty.
Author : Hezekiah Butterworth
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017736885
Author : Marion Ames Taggart
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732625354
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Carol Antoinette Peacock
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 080756544X
When young Pilgrim Faith Barrett discovers a stray cat on the Mayflower, she names her new friend Pounce. Together they face the long, cramped voyage and the perils of the first winter at the Plymouth colony.