Making haste from Babylon: the Mayflower pilgrims and their world: a new history [1st Vintage books ed] 9780307386267, 0307386260

The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. "Making

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English Pages xiv, 489 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm Year 2010;2011

Making haste from Babylon: the Mayflower pilgrims and their world: a new history [1st Vintage books ed]
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Table of contents :
Prelude: The beaver of Mawooshen --
pt. 1. The heavens and the sea --
The year of the blazing star --
Mr. Jones in Plymouth sound --
Crossing Sinai --
pt. 2. Origins --
Troublechurch Browne --
Men and women of the clay --
The making of a pilgrim --
pt. 3 Separation --
The entrails of the King --
Disobedience and contempt --
Stallingborough flats --
pt. 4. The project --
The tomb of the Apostle --
Why the pilgrims sailed --
The beaver, the Cossack, and Prince Charles --
In the artillery garden --
pt. 5. America --
Comfort and refreshing --
The Mystic and the Thames --
Diabolical affection --
If Rochelle be lost --
pt. 6. The ways of salvation --
The prophecy of Micaiah --
The first Bostonians --
The exploding colony --
Epilogue: The last shaman.

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