New Year/New Book!
Our second book for the St. Paul's Cathedral Book Club is Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. Amazon.com describes this amazing study as, "The startling story of the Plymouth Colony, from the flight to religious freedom to the war that ravaged New England, from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea."
Publisher's Weekly hails this 2006 award winning non-fiction text as "Impeccably researched and expertly rendered..." while The Washington Post notes that "...Philbrick is in search of the more factually complex and morally ambiguous truth behind essentially self-serving popular mythology, it is important to emphasize that he is not out to denigrate that mythology or those who embrace it. He celebrates the courage, resourcefulness and determination of many of the settlers, most notably Bradford and the remarkable warrior Benjamin Church; he acknowledges and describes in detail the many ways in which Pilgrims and Indians cooperated, in some cases to their mutual advantage; he pays particular tribute to Mary Rowlandson, the settler who was kidnapped by Indians and endured much hardship and privation but ultimately helped broker peace between Indians and Puritans. He knows, though, that the story of the Pilgrims can't be reduced to doughty Englishmen and women in modest homespun and smiling Indians proffering peace pipes."
Philbrick is a well known author who's books about the sea and exploration include In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, and A Night to Remember: The Classic Account of the Final Hours of the Titanic.
We will meet only once to discuss this book--Sunday, Febuary 4th at Noon, following the 10:30 Holy Eucharist. Feel free to bring a friend.
Feel free to post your own questions and comment to this posting. If I come across additional information, I will post it or links to it here at the on-line St. Paul's Cathedral Book Club blog.
Happy New Year, and Happy Reading!
Peace,
Fr. Shawn +
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