At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the
night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the
Arctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of
doom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrims
prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the
atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and
women readied themselves for war, pestilence, or divine
retribution. Against this background, and amid deep economic
depression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile.
Within a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built a
thriving settlement at New Plymouth, based on beaver fur, corn, and
cattle. In doing so, they laid the foundations for Massachusetts,
New England, and a new nation. 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. 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.
The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals,
political radicals as well as Christian idealists. Making Haste
from Babylon tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots
in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final
creation of a permanent foothold in America.
關於作者：
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. A former investment
banker and reporter for the Financial Times, he now lives
with his wife, Susan, in Lincolnshire, England.
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