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Making Haste From Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims And Their World (2010)

by Nick Bunker(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0307266826 (ISBN13: 9780307266828)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Knopf

review 1: Despite growing up in New England, I realized I didn't actually know very much about the Pilgrims and I thought this book would be a useful introduction. I found it quite disappointing, though. It was excessively detailed and seemed to lose the forest for the trees. There were various digressions into tangentially related subjects, particularly related to the history of England at the time, and not much color about what actually happened to the pilgrims after their arrival.
review 2: I found the first third admirable in its painstakingness, but a bit soporific. And throughout, it was hard for me to keep all those Pilgrims, Separatists and Puritans straight (John, Robert, Thomas, John, Robert, Thomas, etc etc), which made it periodically a bit of a slog. Somew... morehere around King James' entrails, however, I began to be more drawn in to this excellent exploration of the milieu in which men (and really, Bunker only seems to be interested in men!) came to settle New England. His enthusiasm is charming - I like his little descriptions of relevant places, trying to help the reader see the old geography beyond the modern paving ("turn left at the Dunking Donuts," a historically important field that's now a parking lot for school buses), and I like his commitment to meticulously tracing the threads of history. less

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