Mayflower

A small group of devout Puritan Christians exiled in Leiden, Netherlands from England by King Charles' persecution of non-conformist set sail in search of a new land to worship freely in the Americas. With little knowledge on seafaring, the group hired The Mayflower ship to sail across the Atlantic ocean for the new world.

Disease, starvation, and war befell the Pilgrims as they settled in ‘New England', but they ended up setting the first successful English settlement in America and this sprung The United States of America.

I was listening to this this summer, and I also have a hard copy. I appreciate how it shows me how much the Puritans were constantly negotiating with, interacting with, and vulnerable to their indigenous neighbors. I did not realize until I started that he began by looking at Metacom‘s war. He realized that he needed to go back to see what went wrong. I stopped listening on the verge of the war, but feel that I have enough to improve my lectures.

Just the kind of history I don't care for – endless, tedious details about battles. Enjoyed first third or so of the book, but disappointed by the rest.