Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647 (original 1856; edition 1981)

This is a print of an historically significant manuscript. For those interested in the history of the Plymouth Colony, it is a very important primary source. ( )

EXCELLENT! I read this every November!

B O R I N G

This story is one that should be SO exciting and, man, can he put you to sleep. I was very disappointed. Nonetheless, it packs the history into its pages. ( )

Written by a Separatist in the 1600's, this does not make for easy and light reading. It is illuminating and enlightening though. We have all heard the story of the Pilgrims almost as many times as the story of Christmas, but reading this helps us to see and understand events as they happened to the Pilgrims and other settlers. Some things which we have taken for granted, we find are not so. The story is long and detailed and must be read with an understanding that people had a different understanding of the world in those days. In some ways this shows the pilgrims to be better than we have heard, and in other ways, worse. It is simply their story, recorded in one man's journal. ( )