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Non-fiction
This list is a collection of Mayflower book titles - or closely related topics - from members of the SMD(E) Board. Initials at the end of some entries refer to the contributor. Listings are alphabetical by author: ​ ATHERTON, Kathy and HORNE, Susannah  THE WEAVER, THE SHOEMAKER AND THE MOTHER OF A NATION   The Cockerel Press 2019 ISBN 978 1 909871 18 2  Available through Dorking Museum; the story of the six Dorking residents who travelled on the Mayflower to the New World. -DH BALLAM, Anthea and Julia   MAYFLOWER The Voyage that Changed the World  O Books 2003  ISBN 1 903816 38 6 ​​BANGS, Jeremy Dupertuis   INDIAN DEEDS: Land Transactions in Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691   New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002 ISBN 978-880821391. Transcriptions of early deeds between the Plymouth Colony and Native Americans, clarifying seventeenth century land ownership. -JW ​BANGS, Jeremy Dupertuis   INTELLECTUAL BAGGAGE, The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, Ideas of Influence LuLu Press  2010  A catalogue of books the Pilgrims owned and read, and scholarly essays that illustrate the history of the Pilgrims, their religion, their culture, and their lives with books. -JW ​BANGS, Jeremy Dupertuis  PILGRIM EDWARD WINSLOW: New England’s First International Diplomat: a Documentary. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004 BANGS, Jeremy  STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS, TRAVELLERS AND SOJOURNERS - Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation. General Society of Mayflower Descendants  2009  ISBN 978-0930270452. An important, massive volume and comprehensive modern academic work that re assesses the Pilgrim story, particularly during their stay in Leiden, based on meticulous research of original archival material in the Netherlands, England and the United States. -JW BEALE, David   THE MAYFLOWER PILGRIMS Roots of Puritan, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Baptist Heritage  Ambassador-Emerald International  2000 ISBN 1 889893 51 X  Well laid-out for use as a reference book as well as end-to-end reading. -DH ​BRADFORD, William   OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION  Renaissance Classics 2012  ISBN 9781484041833  A 'must have' for any serious Mayflower collection. -DH BUNKER, Nick   MAKING HASTE FROM BABYLON The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World- A New History Pimlico 2010 ISBN 9781845951184 CONLEY, Patrick T.   RHODE ISLAND'S FOUNDERS: From Settlement to Statehood  The History Press, 2010/rev. 2024, ISBN: 978-1596297395/978-1467150552. Roger Williams and other religious exiles migrate from neighbouring colonies to found the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and lay the groundwork for America's policy of religious freedom. -JW FALCONER, Jonathan   HAYNES: MAYFLOWER The Pilgrim fathers' historic voyage of 1620 ENTHUSIASTS' MANUAL Haynes 2020 ISBN 978 1 78521 647 3   Yes, a Haynes Manual for the Mayflower! -DH FEASEY, J. Eaton  THE MAYFLOWER PIONEERS The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers  The Sidney Press, Bedford (for The Sunday School Union, London) No date or ISBN, just an old collector's item. Price 1/6 Back cover mentions Mayflower celebrations, so perhaps dates from about 1920? -DH GILL, Crispin   MAYFLOWER REMEMBERED A History of the Plymouth Pilgrims  David & Charles 1970  7153 4726 8 (assumed to be ISBN or equivalent, but not marked as such). -DH HILTON, Christopher   MAYFLOWER The Voyage That Changed the World  The History Press 2005  ISBN 978 0 7509 9430 9 JACKSON, Kevin   MAYFLOWER The Voyage From Hell  TSB 2020 ISBN 978 1 916190 87 0 ​JOHNSON, Caleb   HERE SHALL I DIE ASHORE  Stephen Hopkins: castaway, Jamestown Survivor and Mayflower Pilgrim  Xlibris 2007 ISBN 978 1 4257 9633 4 KELLY, Joseph  MAROONED Bloomsbury, 2019  ISBN number 0-930270-45-2 About Jamestown but includes Stephen Hopkins. -GG ​KING, Jonathan   THE MAYFLOWER MIRACLE The Pilgrims' Own Story of the Founding of America  David & Charles 1987  ISBN 0 7153 9013 9 LEPORE, Jill   THE NAME OF WAR: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity Vintage Books  1998  ISBN: 0-375-70262-8   The bloodiest war in American history, in proportion to population, that erupted in 1675 between colonists and indigenous people in Southeastern New England. -JW MACK, Jonathan   A STRANGER AMONG SAINTS Stephen Hopkins The Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth  Chicago Review Press 2020  ISBN 978 1 64160 090 3 ​McCULLOUGH, David  JOHN ADAMS   Simon & Schuster 2001  ISBN 978-0684813639  Pulitzer Prize winning historical narrative of John Adams- founding father, second President of the United States, and Mayflower descendant. -JW ​MOURT'S RELATION A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth 1622 Edition edited by Dwight B. Heath: Applewood Books 1963 ISBN 0 918222 84 2  Another classic 'must-have'. -DH O'BRIEN, Rita Cruise  THE MAYFLOWER Myths, Truths and Legacies Riverview Press 2020 ISBN 979 8 66566 155 1 PHILBRICK, Nathaniel  MAYFLOWER  A Voyage To War  Harper Perennial 2006 ISBN 978 0 00 715128 8 ​RAPPLEYE, Charles   SONS OF PROVIDENCE, the Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution  Simon & Schuster  2006  ISBN 978-0743266871  An incisive study of John and Moses Brown, two of four brothers from the Providence banking, import/export and slave-trading family. -JW SHORTO, Russell THE ISLAND AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD: the Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America  Doubleday 2004 ISBN 978-0385503495   Based on recently translated 17th century Dutch records of New Netherland, Shorto’s narrative brings to life a colony based on trade and tolerance, the first place in the New World where men and women of different races and creeds lived in relative harmony. A stark contrast to the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Connecticut Colonies. -JW SOUTHWARK BOROUGH COUNCIL THE MAYFLOWER AND PILGRIM STORY Chapters from Rotherhithe and Southwark  Council of the London Borough of Southwark 1970  ISBN 0 905849 12 4 Another collector's item, this booklet comprehensively records the Mayflower story as seen from this part of the Thames. -DH ​TAYLOR, Graham  THE MAYFLOWER IN BRITAIN How an Icon was Made in London  Amberley 2020 ISBN 978 1 4456 9229 6 VOWELL, Sarah  THE WORDY SHIPMATES    Riverhead Books 2008  ISBN 9781594484001. Humorous social commentary on 400 years of America’s evolving Puritan identity. -JW WHITTOCK, Martyn  MAYFLOWER LIVES Pilgrims in a New World and the early American Experience  Pegasus Books 2019 ISBN 9781 16431 36080 ​WINSLOW, Edward  GOOD NEWS FROM NEW ENGLAND A Scholarly Edition University of Massachusetts Press 2014, edited by Kelly Wisecup ISBN 978 1 62534 082 5  Another one for the serious Mayflower enthusiast. -DH
Fiction
​GREGG, Frank M.  THE FOUNDING OF A NATION Forgotten Books 2018, originally published 1915 ISBN 978 1 331 12501 3    This unusual old reprint tells the Mayflower story through the eyes of a fictional cavalier who escapes his life by sailing to the New World with the Founding Fathers. An introduction by the author explains how and why he constructed the tale in this way. -DH LASKY, Kathryn   My Story MAYFLOWER The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, 1620  Scholastic 2003 ISBN 0 439 98115 8   A lovely story, written for younger readers, which tells the story of the Mayflower journey and early days of Plimouth, through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl. -DH RESS, Suzanne THE TRIAL OF GOODY GILBERT  Suzanne Ress, 2012  ISBN 0615662269 (A fictional tale based on fact). Still on my list to read, this book was written by our late Deputy Governor, Suzanne Ress- GG ​REVELL, Phil  A SPURIOUS BROOD  Ascribe 2011  ISBN 978 0 9569626 0 7  A fictional story based on the true story of Katherine More, whose four children children sailed on the Mayflower. The author attempts to fill in the gaps and speculates how this may have come about. -DH