Nathaniel Philbrick
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World
Penguin Putnam for Young Readers, Fall 2008
An abridged and illustrated edition of MAYFLOWER marketed for middle-grade readers.
“This elegant, absorbing account of the first two generations of Pilgrims sets the record straight about the first Thanksgiving and the following five decades....The eye-opening descriptions make no bones of the brutality of the colonists, who slaughtered trapped women and children and triumphantly displayed enemies' heads on posts at Plymouth Colony. The author masterfully brings both sides to life with an evenhanded sense of their complex motives and cultural differences.”—Kirkus (starred)
