Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth (Applewood Books)

by William Bradford and Edward Winslow

Book Overview

Originally printed in 1622, this is the first published account of the coming of the Pilgrims to the New World to settle Plymouth Plantation. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918222842
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Applewood Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Mourt's relation

The book is more detailed about the history of Plimoth Colony from Edward Winslow's and William Bradford's perspective.

Excellent concise history as seen by those who made it

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

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!

Excellent First-Hand Account

An excellent, easy-to-read account of the explorations made by the Pilgrims after their arrival at Cape Cod in 1620. The book, first published in 1622, describes in a day-by-day format just about everything that occured from the Mayflower's arrival up to and including the First Thanksgiving