||New York: Penguin Books (2006) |Nathaniel Philbrick.
Mayflower. (New York: Penguin Books (2006)).| Mayflower is the
account of the Pilgrim settlers from their time in Leiden in the
1610s until King Phillip's War in 1675-76. It is written as a
popular historical non-fiction book, and the text is thus not
cluttered with footnotes or especially specific on dates or
places. There is however a 30 page bibliography, over 50 pages
of notes keyed to the text, a passenger list, and a fairly
detailed index. Genealogical details in the book include: - "A
few weeks after Bradford's election to governor, Edward Winslow
and Susanna White showed the rest of the settlement that it was
indeed possible to start anew. Susanna had lost her husband,
William, on February 21; Edward had lost his wife, Elizabeth, on
March 24. Just a month and a half later, on May 12, Edward and
Susanna became the first couple in Plymouth to marry. Six weeks
may seem too short a time to grieve, but in the seventeenth
century, it was quite normal fo