The last part of the book deals largely with the Puritans’ life in the New World and how they managed to survive. In a discussion of King James I of England, who actively loathed the Puritans, Bunker includes a graphic description of the monarch’s 1625 autopsy, which he uses to make a sharp point about how the king saw Puritanism as nothing more than a disease. In these early sections, the author makes convincing arguments disputing the conventional notion that the small town of Scrooby was the center of the early Puritan movement, pointing out that the movement was spread across a wide area. Bunker takes a distinctly wider view, with about half of the narrative concentrating solely on the Puritans’ British origins and their history in Europe before they made their fateful trip. Most stories about the settlers focus on the period after 1620, when the pilgrims first landed in the New World to found Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts.
And, of course, if you want the "official" history of the Pilgrims, go with Plymouth Governor William Bradford's first-hand history, Of Plymouth Plantation, an edition of which I have edited.In an ambitious debut, former investment banker and Financial Times writer Bunker sets out a new history of the Mayflower pilgrims. Bangs' Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners (2009).
For a fuller (900 pages!) and more academic study of Pilgrim history, see Jeremy D. The cover artwork is Mike Haywood's "Mayflower Dawn."įor a more "traditional" history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth, see the two widely-available books below, namely Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower and Nick Bunker's Making Haste from Babylon. It also includes an introductory history on the Mayflower ship itself and a description of the voyage, as well as reprints of a few key historical documents. Rather than a traditional history of Pilgrims, it instead consists of short (1 to 20 page) individual biographies of each family or person who came on the Mayflower, giving the known information about them from English and Dutch records as well as an account of what happened to them in America. The Mayflower and Her Passengers is my own book, authored by me and published in 2006.
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