- Published: 15 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781845951184
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $39.99
Making Haste From Babylon
The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
- Published: 15 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781845951184
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 512
- RRP: $39.99
Making Haste from Babylon is essential reading for those who think they know the story of the Pilgrims. It will be pure pleasure for those who are new to the subject
Simon Middleton, BBC History Magazine
Even beyond its indefatigable scholarship and fine style, this book's sensitivity to the meaning of landscape should influence travel writers and historians for years to come
James McConnachie, The Sunday Times
His spirit, zeal and flair put most historians of his subject to shame
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The Times
[Nick Bunker's] vivid style and bold analysis infuse this book with colour and pace, and the result is an indispensible contribution to understanding how it all began
Raymond Seitz, Literary Review
This new history has made those supposedly dull Puritans crackle with narrative energy and fizz with vibrant colour as never before
Christopher Silvester, Daily Express
An honest, intensive attempt to reconstruct the nemal world of the first Pilgrims, and the topography of the new lands in which they settled
Times Literary Supplement
The mythologised vision of the Pilgrim Fathers we have today - their black hats, their lace collars, the landing on Plymouth Rock - is largely a sentimental Victorian fabrication, says this rewriting of one of America's most sacred fables
Financial Times, Christmas round up
Timely... Nick Bunker has re-told an old story with aplomb, using a wealth of sources to capture the febrile mood of the time
Sally Cousins, Daily Telegraph
Admirable
New York Times