The Truth Behind the Pligrims

Recently, I have read two chapters from the book "Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War" by Nathaniel Philbrick. The two chapters' names are "The Heart of Winter" and "In a Dark and Dismal Swamp." The two chapters that I read began about how the Pilgrims first settled. It also talked about the Pilgrims' first Winter and how bad life was during that time. Then it started talking about the Pilgrims' first relations with the Native Americans. Lastly, it talked about the Pilgrims and the Native Americans finally making peace and what they did to help each other.

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I thought that the story behind the Pilgrims was very interesting and that the amount of facts worked in to this book was outstanding. This book was very clear and was very educational. The key topics in this book were the Pilgrims arriving in Plymouth, the staggering death rates, and the Pilgrims' relations with the Natives.

I liked this book better than any textbook or lecture but I still did not feel as though this book was put into the style of a story that you follow along with. Overall I enjoyed the amount of facts that were placed into this book and I thought that each one was important. Personally, I only enjoy books that have plots or plot twists in them. I didn't have any emotions while reading this and I like to be exited while reading a story which I did not feel while reading this book. I still felt that this book was just a little bit better than a textbook.

I would recommend this book to people who enjoy learning about history and do not care about a plot but just want to read something that is more enjoyable and easier to read than a big, fat history textbook.

I think that this book would have been better if there was a main character and the story was told from either a Pilgrims view or a Native Americans view, or even both, while still conveying the truth and having important and well-placed facts in it. I would rate this book 3 stars just because it was better than a textbook but not by a landslide.