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Saints and Strangers: Lives of the Pilgrim Fathers and Their by George Willison PDF

By George Willison

ISBN-10: 1138532193

ISBN-13: 9781138532199

ISBN-10: 1412818257

ISBN-13: 9781412818254

greatly has been written concerning the Pilgrims, probably greater than the other small team in American background. but they remain extravagantly praised for attaining what they by no means tried or meant, and they're much more foolishly abused for owning attitudes and attributes international to them. within the well known brain they're nonetheless quite often careworn, to their nice drawback, with the Puritans who settled to the north of them round Boston Bay. the aim of the Willison narrative is to permit the Pilgrims to inform their very own tale, insofar as attainable, of their personal phrases and deeds. Saints and Strangers brings again to lifestyles women and men who have been one of the such a lot stalwart of yankee ancestors. George F. Willison destroys the parable that too lengthy has been created within the American brain: that Pilgrims, whereas pious and masses to be widespread, have been a colorless, stern humans devoted to prudery. not anything should be farther from the proof. those have been lusty English those that have been good conscious of reliable meals, drink, and satisfying residing. They have been additionally an adventurous, hardheaded neighborhood united of their crusade for freedom of worship. The ebook takes the reader from the Puritan exile in Holland, their lengthy and bothered voyage from outdated Europe to new the United States, and the damaging interval of deciding on a wierd, bleak coast. The Puritans have been produced from weavers, smiths, carpenters, printers, tailors, and dealing people--with scarcely a blue blood between them. It was once a protracted trek to Plymouth Rock from English village lifestyles. Willison has produced a practical photograph of those those who frequently were inaccurately portrayed with little appreciation in their significant position within the background of a brand new World.

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