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A book makes the perfect gift --
for a friend, a loved one, or yourself

Tracing your Pilgrim roots?
We have the books that can help you - the Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Series, the comprehensive and invaluable "silver books" published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, tracing through 5 generations of descendants of individual Mayflower passengers.
Books with less complete lineage lines, known as "pink books," are available for "families in progress."
Click HERE for a list of available silver and pink books.

NEW!
Pilgrim Edward Winslow: New England's First International Diplomat, by Jeremy D. Bangs.
$34.95 (soft cover)
This new book by Pilgrim scholar Jeremy Bangs (PhD Leiden, 1976), director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum, is an extraordinarily comprehensive documentary biography of Edward Winslow that explores Winslow not merely as a Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor, but also as a diplomat, demonstrating the Pilgrims' participation in - and influence on - both colonial and international affairs.



Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford, ed. by Samuel Eliot Morison $29.95 (hard cover) William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation is a remarkable work by a man who himself was something of a marvel. It remains one of the most readable 17th century books. Covering the years 1620 through 1657, this is the single most important primary source for information about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony. Also available in soft cover for $14.95

MORE GREAT PRIMARY SOURCES!
Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, ed. by A. Heath
$9.95 (soft cover)
Originally printed in 1622, this is the first published account of the coming of the Pilgrims to the New World to settle Plymouth Plantation - and the only account of the harvest feast that we know as the First Thanksgiving!

New- Englands Rarities Discovered, by John Josselyn
$9.95 (soft cover)
Originally published in 1672, New-England Rarities Discovered was the first book to identify New England animal and plant life, medicinal recipes of the Native Americans, and other natural lore

Three Visitors to Early Plymouth, ed. by Baker, Morison and James
$9.95 (soft cover)
John Pory of Virginia, Emmanuel Altham of England, and Isaack de Rasieres a Dutchman from New Amsterdam, visited the Plymouth Plantation shortly after it was settled. Each came as an outsider and wrote letters home about what he saw, observing the people, the natural setting, and the community. These letters, printed together for the first time in many years, offer a fascinating and objective view of Plymouth from its contemporaries.

Good Newes from New England, by Edward Winslow
$8.95 (soft cover)
This is one of the most important early Pilgrims tracts to come from America. First published in 1624, this book helped persuade others from England to settle in Plymouth. It contains fascinating information about Native Americans and their lifestyle, as well as contemporary reflections on New England soil and climate.

New England's Prospect, by William Wood, ed. by Alden T. Vaughan
$19.95 (soft cover)
For anyone wishing to revisit New England and its human inhabitants, Native and non-Native, as they appeared during the earliest years of colonial settlement. Originally published in London in 1634, this was one of the first books to provide reliable, first-hand information on British America for prospective colonists.

John Jossselyn, Colonial Traveler, by Lindholdt
$22.95 (soft cover)
A new edition of Josselyn's classic description of 17th centu

Stepping Stones: The Pilgrims' Own Story, by Notson & Notson
$23.95 (hard cover)
This book (appropriate for junior high and older) explores what has been called the beginning of America, meaning the American democratic system. It combines and distills into one "Pilgrim Package" the three great documents of Plymouth Colony - Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, Mourt's Relation or Journal of the Pilgrims, and the Mayflower Compact.

Plymouth, by James W. Baker
$19.95 (128 pages, soft cover)
The history of Plymouth didn't stop when the dishes were cleared away from the First Thanksgiving! Explore Plymouth in the 19th and 20th centuries in this photographic compilation that embraces the later history of the first Old Colony town, America's Home Town. Many of the photographs in Plymouth are from the archives of the Pilgrim Society; each book sold benefits the Pilgrim Society & Pilgrim Hall Museum! Part of the Arcadia Publishers "Images of America" series.

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