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“One opens this book with a weary sense of resignation. More hagiography about national origins? Another group of founders? The Pilgrims? The Mayflower? The Compact? The first Thanksgiving? A ‘new history’? Please! Enough already. And yet . . . it’s not like that, not at all. To the contrary, Nick Bunker offers a remarkably fresh take on (it’s true) an old and well-worn story. . . . The evidence . . . adds up to a picture so full and vivid as to constitute a virtual ground-level tour of an otherwise lost world.” —The Washington Post “A meticulous exploration of the lives of the Pilgrims before they even set sail. . . . It’s a comprehensive work of genius and a delight to read.” —GalleyCat.com “A wonderfully engaging study. . . . There is so much here that is fresh and invigorating that Making Haste from Babylon will seem to some lovers of early American history a real page-turner with new readings and perceptive takes in each chapter. Bunker has written that rarest of books—a scholarly history with all the narrative punch of a novel.” —The Providence Journal"Nick Bunker’s thorougly researched new history digs deeper than previous accounts. . . . Making Haste from Babylon is a remarkable tour de force destined to become an indispensible resource for in-depth understanding of the colonial experience in New England." –Historical Journal of Massachusetts“Bunker . . . is simply a marvelous writer with a nose for the fascinating anecdote. . . . There’s some intriguing fact or story on every page . . . so much of Making Haste from Babylon [is] rich in the thrill of brushing up against the past and its fathomless mysteries.” —Salon.com “A bold work of revisionism.” —Harper’s Magazine “Making Haste from Babylon is essential reading for those who think they know the story of the Pilgrims. . . . All this and more Bunker relates with enviable concision and verve.” —BBC History Magazine“Prodigious . . . [Bunker’s] vivid style and bold analysis infuse this book with colour and pace, and the result is an indispensable contribution to understanding how it all began.” —Literary Review "This superb book secures for the Pilgrims their iconic perch among the earliest founders of colonial America. Bunker…has succeeded in writing a major history, unprecedented in its sweep, of the Plymouth Colony. . . . Never before has such a comprehensive and thoroughly researched study of the subject appeared. . . . The results are stunning. Certain to be the dominating work on the Pilgrims for decades.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Nick Bunker has done the seemingly impossible: he has shed new light on the oldest of stories, the epic of the Pilgrims' experience in the Old and New Worlds. With graceful writing and diligent scholarship, he has given us an engaging and original book.” —Jon Meacham “I have rarely read a book which combines such a breadth of canvas...with such penetrating and detailed research.” —Patrick Collinson, Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University (emeritus) “In this beautifully written and imagined book, impeccably researched, and full of so many fresh insights and discoveries, Nick Bunker has given us the most grounded and convincing portrait yet achieved of what drove the Pilgrim Fathers to seek their faith and fortune in the New World. . . . Combining intensive archive research with a time traveler’s eye he conjures a wonderfully evocative sense of place. . . . It is a fabulous tale of our ancestors, but also the true founding moment of America.” —Michael Wood, British historian, documentary filmmaker, and broadcaster
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About the Author
A graduate of King’s College, Cambridge, with a master’s degree from Columbia University, Nick Bunker has had a diverse career in finance and journalism. His book An Empire on the Edge was a Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History and the winner of the 2015 George Washington Prize. A former investment banker and reporter for the Financial Times, he now lives with his wife, Susan, in Lincolnshire, England.
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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage; First Edition edition (April 19, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307386260
ISBN-13: 978-0307386267
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 1.3 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
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I think we all knew that the arrival of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts was more than Puritans eking out an existence on Plymouth Rock, nearly starving the first year and celebrating w/ the neighbors when the harvest came in. For instance, no one ever explained how it was that Squanto was able to communicate w/ the Pilgrims. It turns out that he (real name Tisquantum) was captured by an English ship's master in 1614 and taken w/ some twenty-seven Native Americans back to England to be sold as slaves at Malaga, Spain. At Malaga, Spanish monks saved him and his fellow prisoners from slavery. He managed to make his way to England, learned English and found passage back to Massachussets, arriving just before the Pilgrims. The fact that New England was well explored by English ships looking for cod to take back to England prior to 1620 wasn't covered in my lessons about the founding of an English colony. The fact that the backers who paid for the voyage of the Mayflower hoped to recoup their expenses by opening a lucrative fur trade also wasn't covered. The circumstances that led strict Dissenters who we know as Puritans to the New World is also a more interesting story than the problems w/ King James and temporary refuge in Holland. This book is an extremely well-researched and extremely well-written account of how it was that the Pilgrims came to the New World. It's much more interesting than I ever imagined. The details in this book and the incredible background in this book make it a superb addition to anyone's understanding. I guarantee that you will find out much that you never knew and the truth is much more interesting than the traditional Thanksgiving tale. I recommend this book highly.
I enjoy reading history. I ignored this book for several years after its publication. What could be new about Plymouth Rock? Well, plenty. Kudos to the author. He combed through the business records and shipping records in England and Europe, and re-traced the fur trading routes in what is now Maine and Massachusetts, to give an economic history of Plymouth colony. That sounds dull, but it is not. Prayer and a desire for land and freedom could not have led to the settling of New England--this book ties European commerce, and European wars, to the conditions that made risking the Atlantic crossing worth while for tens of thousands of English. Very informative and entertainingly written. Completely different from Nathanial Philbrick's "Mayflower", which is a history of the New England settlers and the native inhabitants.
In "Making Haste From Babylon", Nick Bunker begins with an eagle's view of history; and though the eagle transmogrifies, like a Pacific Northwest totem, into a menagerie of other creatures, crowned by the beaver which (who knew?) enabled the flagging New Plymouth colony survive, from first to last this literary trick allows an aerial survey of events and people who shaped them in the covenant of business and religion that became New England that in a very real way unfolds the entire map at once. Theories, like detail, may seem densely packed, but when one steps back (or hovers eagle-like overhead) the bright fretwork of Bunker's logic gleams in recognizable and often beautiful patterns. And he's not afraid of shaking up the hoary Pilgrims more than a little. His portrait of Elder William Brewster is a case in point. Those who envision Brewster as the mild-mannered old greybeard a little lower than Moses will find in Bunker's pages a vibrant and risk-taking man who rose from an upwardly mobile northern English family in which Puritanism's footnotes, like those in the Geneva Bible, sang the praises of success and prosperity, and spent his youth among the nonconformist firebrands of Cambridge University and the dramatic pre-Spanish Armada years on the edge of the court of Queen Elizabeth I, then after fleeing to Holland risked the welfare of himself, his family and his congregation by publishing seditious books that moved King James I to issue arrest warrants and sputter vituperatives. Brewster brought to New England not only a cracking library rich with both searching religious texts and books about exploration, courtly manners, tables of nobility, and silk worms, but also his dangerous refusal to be told by any monarch how to worship or how to live as a citizen and man, and the knowledge and experience to inform a document (the Mayflower Compact) seminal to the American ideal of civic freedoms and responsibilities. That he and the rest of the Pilgrims of 1620 were more colourful than American schoolchildren (of which I was one) were ever taught is clear. But above all, that they were human to a degree anyone living in today's jaded world can still understand, rings like a bell through Bunker's somber, sardonic, illuminating and majestic book.
An interesting complex opinionated and very much researched description of the Pilgrims. It is particularly good at setting the complex background in England that gave rise to the pilgrims (Brownists as opposed to the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay.) Interesting in setting the economic reasons for the colonies success and describing the people who made it up. A much more nuanced history of the Plymouth colony set in broader historical terms than many accounts. All in all well worth reading f you are interested in America in the colonial period.
I am a history nut who wants to know the whys and wherefores of historical events. "Making Haste from Babylon" is one of those thought provoking books that inform and entertain at the same time. As most Americans, I thought I knew the story of the Pilgrims, but was surprised at what I didn't know. The author has done a magnificent job of research on the period and what was behind the reasons for the pilgrims to emigrate and the fact that they finally, after several years of struggle, became a successful colony. I'm sure that it was mentioned somewhere in some small statement, but it hit me hard to know that the trade in beaver pelts was the deciding factor on whether the colony would survive or not. I recommend the book highly. It is deep reading, but well worth the time. Ann Lamphere
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