From mercantile London and the rural England of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I to the mountains and rivers of Maine, he weaves a rich narrative that combines religion, politics, money, science, and the sea. Using a wealth of new evidence from landscape, archaeology, and hundreds of overlooked or neglected documents, Nick Bunker gives a vivid and strikingly original account of the Mayflower project and the first decade of the Plymouth Colony. In doing so, they laid the foundations for Massachusetts, New England, and a new nation. Within a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built a thriving settlement at New Plymouth, based on beaver fur, corn, and cattle. Against this background, and amid deep economic depression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile. Men and women readied themselves for war, pestilence, or divine retribution.
Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. From the Philippines to the Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation. At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere.
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