A great & godly adventure : the Pilgrims & the myth of the first Thanksgiving / Godfrey Hodgson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodgson, Godfrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony).

Thanksgiving Day--History.

Thanksgiving Day.

Wampanoag Indians.

History.

Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691.

Massachusetts.

Wampanoag Indians--History--17th century.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples--Massachusetts.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 212 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Great and godly adventure

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, [2006]

Summary:

The first Thanksgiving wasn't celebrated with turkey (there weren't any in Massachusetts) and didn't take place in 1621. Indeed the settlers, who probably didn't think of themselves as Pilgrims and were most certainly not revolutionaries against their king, were lucky not to be wiped out during their first winter. They probably would have been had the local Indian population not been affected even worse by disease and starvation. In this fascinating history of America's favorite creation myth, peppered with delightful and unexpected insights, Godfrey Hodgson throws new light on the radicalism of the so-called Pilgrims, the financing of their trip, the state of the Indian tribes that they encountered when they landed and the reasons why Plymouth probably didn't have a rock.

Contents:

Thanksgiving

The Reformation

Scrooby

The waters of exile

Voyage and landfall

A place of habitation

First encounters

The loss of trust

The colony

Fasts and thanksgiving

A republic gives thanks

The invention of a tradition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index.

ISBN:

1586483730

OCLC:

70335467

Publisher Number:

9781586483739