A RIVETING ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE OF THE MAYFLOWER that looks at the
reality behind the mythical status and the journey that created the New
World. Most of the voyagers of that famed 1620 crossing of the Atlantic
were not in fact religious pilgrims but people intent on forging a
better life for themselves in the virgin territory of America's east
coast. 130 hardy souls were confined in a space no bigger than a tennis
court, braving the Northern Crossing' without any firm idea of what
awaited them in the New World.
Published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the fabled crossing of
the "Pilgrim Fathers" from Plymouth, England. The pilgrims, who held
Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs, sighted land at Cape Cod and first
anchored in Provincetown Harbour on November 11/12 1620. And from there
went on to found the Plymouth Colony.