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Making haste from Babylon, the Mayflower pilgrims and their world: a new history, Nick Bunker

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Making haste from Babylon, the Mayflower pilgrims and their world: a new history, Nick Bunker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-467) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Making haste from Babylon

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

648922486

Responsibility statement

Nick Bunker

Sub title

the Mayflower pilgrims and their world: a new history

Summary

The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. "Making Haste from Babylon" tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America

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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