Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award-winning *In the Heart of the Sea* , hailed as “spellbinding” by *Time* magazine. In *Mayflower* , Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the *Mayflower* and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. From the *Mayflower* ‘s arduous Atlantic crossing to the eruption of King Philip’s War between colonists and natives decades later, Philbrick reveals in this electrifying history of the Pilgrims a fifty-five-year epic, at once tragic and heroic, that still resonates with us today.
