The Mayflower Pilgrims: Sifting Reality from Fable

The voyage of the Mayflower in 1620 has come to typify these qualities that many consider symbolize the perfect of America and the values it holds as much as the remainder of the world. And but, in the event that they lived at present, the brave males, ladies and kids who made that journey wouldn’t acknowledge themselves within the romantic retelling of their story in fashionable books and flicks of the final century or so.

So what had been the motivating forces behind this momentous voyage? Derek Wilson strips away the over-painting from the icon to find the advanced vary of spiritual, political and industrial considerations that led this group of hopeful however fallible human beings to hunt a brand new life on the opposite facet of the world.