{"product_id":"the-mayflower-generation-9780099477686","title":"The Mayflower Generation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e Times\u003c\/i\u003e History Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe voyage of the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the seminal events in world history. But the story did not end with her arrival on the frozen coast of New England in 1620. In an epic history, Rebecca Fraser relates one ordinary family's extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America. Despite the intense physical trials of living in the New World, Edward Winslow found America exotic and enticing. His remarkable friendship with Massasoit, the King of the Wampanoags, is part of the legend of Thanksgiving. Yet, fifty years later, Edward's son Josiah was commanding the New England militias against Massasoit's son in King Philip's War. A fast-paced intensely human portrait, \u003ci\u003eThe Mayflower Generation\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the contradictions between generations as they made the painful decisions that determined the future of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaptivating, scholarly and addictively readable\u003c\/b\u003e… Rebecca Fraser has the rare gift of being able to marshal and communicate a mountainous quantity of often original research in such a \u003cb\u003edeft and elegant\u003c\/b\u003e manner that it never becomes indigestible or irrelevant. [...] When a sidestep outside her rigorous chronological account is required, she executes it nimbly, without breaking her stride. If she reaches a period of scanty evidence, she admits it, and her suggestions carry the conviction of expertise. Everything is rooted in provable fact, much of it new -- Sue Gaisford * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Fraser tells this familiar story with \u003cb\u003ewonderful immediacy\u003c\/b\u003e; the Winslows come across not as strange characters from the distant past, but as \u003cb\u003ereal people with passions and anxieties familiar to us all\u003c\/b\u003e -- Gerard De Groot * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eIt is \u003cb\u003eengagingly written\u003c\/b\u003e and often \u003cb\u003ecompelling\u003c\/b\u003e. There is an eye for memorable detail… The later account of “King Philip’s war” is both \u003cb\u003egraphic and gripping\u003c\/b\u003e… The author is a careful researcher, fair and level-headed. She is also \u003cb\u003ean excellent painter of characters\u003c\/b\u003e; in judging them, she looks as their deeds with contemporary mores in mind… Even if the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e shelf is a crowded one, this is a book that deserves its place on it * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003e[Fraser] has threaded the important historiographical innovations seamlessly into her text,\u003cb\u003e paying more attention than hitherto to the experiences of early colonial women\u003c\/b\u003e, and drawing on the lessons of ethno-history in her portrayal of Indian tribes... \u003cb\u003eA brilliant combination of synthesis and original research\u003c\/b\u003e arriving in good time for the celebration of the quincentenary of the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e -- Mark Bostridge * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFascinating\u003c\/b\u003e… Rebecca Fraser commands a sprawling canvas, beginning in 1595 with the birth of Edward Winslow and ending in 1704 with the death of Peregrine White… Edward Winslow’s excitement at arriving in Leiden, with its free-thinking university, is vividly captured. So, too, are the perils of the \u003ci\u003eMayflower\u003c\/i\u003e’s voyage… There is also a rich sense of the enormous possibilities offered by the New World… \u003cb\u003eThis is a thrilling story, admirably told\u003c\/b\u003e -- Anthony Gardner * Tablet *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732241396055,"sku":"9780099477686","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099477686.jpg?v=1719996104","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mayflower-generation-9780099477686","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}