Mayflower

We just finished reading Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick, another of the historical books we brought along this summer--I guess in honor of next year's 400-year celebration. The book is extremely well-sourced, and I learned much about the voyage and the Plymouth settlement. I read somewhere that our history lessons tend to jump from 1620 to 1776. Philbrick concentrates on the seventy or eighty years following the landing of the Mayflower and provides an entirely new perspective on that period of history.