Mayflower

Nantucket’s Philbrick, a National Book Award–winner, turns his attention to the Pilgrims’ journey aboard the Mayflower to Plymouth—and the tumult that festered between settlers and Indians in the years after the first Thanksgiving. Philbrick connects his well-detailed characters and descriptions to modern New England in a narrative that will captivate not only history buffs, but also readers who confuse the Pilgrims with the Puritans.