Life on the Mayflower - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life on the Mayflower write by Jessica Gunderson. This book was released on 2010-12. Life on the Mayflower available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A description of the Pilgrim's life on the Mayflower as they sailed to America.
Mayflower Lives
Mayflower Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mayflower Lives write by Martyn Whittock. This book was released on 2019-08-06. Mayflower Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the “saints” (members of the Separatist puritan congregations) and “strangers” (economic migrants) on the original ship who collectively became known to history as “the Pilgrims.”The story of the Pilgrims has taken on a life of its own as one of our founding national myths—their escape from religious persecution, the dangerous transatlantic journey, that brutal first winter. Throughout the narrative, we meet characters already familiar to us through Thanksgiving folklore—Captain Jones, Myles Standish, and Tisquantum (Squanto)—as well as new ones.There is Mary Chilton, the first woman to set foot on shore, and asylum seeker William Bradford. We meet fur trapper John Howland and little Mary More, who was brought as an indentured servant. Then there is Stephen Hopkins, who had already survived one shipwreck and was the only Mayflower passenger with any prior Amer- ican experience. Decidedly un-puritanical, he kept a tavern and was frequently chastised for allowing drinking on Sundays.Epic and intimate, Mayflower Lives is a rich and rewarding book that promises to enthrall readers of early American history.
The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland's Good Fortune
The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland's Good Fortune - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland's Good Fortune write by P.J. Lynch. This book was released on 2015-09-22. The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower, or John Howland's Good Fortune available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first book he has both written and illustrated, master artist P.J. Lynch brings a Mayflower voyager’s story to vivid life. At a young age, John Howland learned what it meant to take advantage of an opportunity. Leaving the docks of London on the Mayflower as an indentured servant to Pilgrim John Carver, John Howland little knew that he was embarking on the adventure of a lifetime. By his great good fortune, John survived falling overboard on the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, and he earned his keep ashore by helping to scout a safe harbor and landing site for his bedraggled and ill shipmates. Would his luck continue to hold amid the dangers and adversity of the Pilgrims’ lives in New England? John Howland’s tale is masterfully told in his own voice, bringing an immediacy and young perspective to the oft-told Pilgrims’ story. P.J. Lynch captures this pivotal moment in American history in precise and exquisite detail, from the light on the froth of a breaking wave to the questioning voice of a teen in a new world.
History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647
History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 write by William Bradford. This book was released on 1912. History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Library Book
The Library Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Library Book write by Susan Orlean. This book was released on 2019-10-01. The Library Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
