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Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth | 
| Creator: Dwight Heath
Publisher: Applewood Books(MA)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 288194
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0918222842
Dewey Decimal Number: 974.48202
EAN: 9780918222848
ASIN: 0918222842
Publication Date: September 1, 1986
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Product Description
Originally printed in 1622, this is the first published account of the coming of the Pilgrims to the New World to settle Plymouth Plantation.
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 Mourt's relation May 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is more detailed about the history of Plimoth Colony from Edward Winslow's and William Bradford's perspective.
 most interesting March 17, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A most interesting book I didn`t have time to read until now - I am reading it these days. The binding and other techn. character. are satisfactory - considering the price, excellent.
The "American Dream" and Puritan Propaganda March 20, 2003
5 out of 15 found this review helpful
In the colonial stage of America's discovery, Europeans' conception of America appeared to be positive because at this stage the subject was the exploration and settlement of America and that was why Europeans received exaggerating accounts of the New World and its manifold opportunities. The colonizers' tracts and the travelers' accounts exaggerated the romantic attractions of the New World. The vast and abundant resources of the New World were admired, in a propagandistic and persuasive discourse. Both the Puritans and the colonizers (which were often one and the same) wrote exaggerating accounts of their adventures to lure Europeans over to the New World. Mourt's Relation (1622) was written to persuade Europeans that life in Massachusetts was a venture in a plentiful land. The book overlooks the calamities of the first winter and overstates the rich resources of Massachusetts. Yet, it is an excellent read.
Excellent concise history as seen by those who made it December 5, 2001
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book. The unknown author ("Mourt") describes in detail the accounts of life during the settlement of the Pilgrims. "He" describes the account in a day-to-day style, accounting for making food, building houses, and encounters with the indigenous peoples. The Pilgrams' travels to find a home and the actual settling are fascinating and well described. I will never think of the Pilgrims or indigenous peoples the same way again. Overall, this book is very insightful.The language is archaic, I feel I must warn you. But if you can get past that, and you like colonial history, you'll love this one. It will give you a much better idea about the Pilgrams, far beyond the over-dramatized and unrealistically happy Thanksgiving story.
Wonderful and Surprising October 30, 2001
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This delightful little book describes the first year of the Pilgrims in America. Written to make life in Massachusetts sound like an adventure in a bounteous land, the book ignores the extreme hardship of the first winter and instead focuses on the rich resources of Massachusetts and the relationship the Pilgrims developed with the Indians. Here, the book drives home two points: (1) Europeans had long come to North American to fish and trade. These activities left a mixed legacy that the pilgrims had to overcome. (2) The Indians were everywhere. In fact, the first trip by the Pilgrims to visit chief Massasoit was motivated in part by this fact: Indians families were coming in great numbers to Plymouth to look at the English and interact with them. This was keeping the English from focusing on their farming. A wonderful book!
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