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21) The island that disappeared: the lost history of the Mayflower's sister ship and its rival Puritan colony

Author

Feiling, Tom

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle

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"The Island that Disappeared tells, for the first time, the story of the passengers aboard the Mayflower's sister ship (the Seaflower) who in 1630 founded a rival Puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence--so small it doesn't appear on most maps. Chaos ensued, and the great experiment failed. One-hundred years later the disaster repeated itself. Traveling to the island today, Tom Feiling finds a new mix of Puritans and pirates...

22) John Wesley: his puritan heritage ; a study of the Christian life

Author

Monk, Robert C

Publisher

Abingdon Press

Pub. Date

[1966]

Language

English

23) Pilgrims in paradise: a novel

Author

Slaughter, Frank G

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

[1960]

Language

English

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Two brothers, one a Puritan leader, the other a Cavalier doctor, fall in love with the same woman in a new West Indian colony.

24) The Puritan twins

Author

Perkins, Lucy Fitch

Series

Historical
Her [Twins of the world series]

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

[1921]

Language

English

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Story of life in the American colonies from the viewpoint of Puritan twins.

25) Visible saints: the history of a Puritan idea

Author

Morgan, Edmund S

Publisher

Cornell U.P

Pub. Date

1965.

Language

English

26) Their solitary way: the Puritan social ethic in the first century of settlement in New England

Author

Foster, Stephen

Series

Yale historical publications. Miscellany ; 94

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

1971.

Language

English

27) Puritanism and democracy

Author

Perry, Ralph Barton

Publisher

The Vanguard Press

Pub. Date

[1944]

Language

English

28) The Puritan origins of the American self

Author

Bercovitch, Sacvan

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

1975.

Language

English

29) The Puritan ordeal

Author

Delbanco, Andrew

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

1989.

Language

English

30) The Puritans in America: a narrative anthology

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

1985.

Language

English

31) The Winthrop fleet of 1630: an account of the vessels, the voyage, the passengers and theirEnglish homes from original authorities

Author

Banks, Charles Edward

Publisher

Genealogical Publishing Co

Pub. Date

1989.

Language

English

32) Puritanism in America: new culture in a new world

Author

Ziff, Larzer

Publisher

Viking Press

Pub. Date

[1973]

Language

English

33) The Puritan family: religion & domestic relations in seventeenth-century New England

Author

Morgan, Edmund S

Series

Harper torchbooks. Academy library ; 1227L

Publisher

Harper & Row

Pub. Date

[1966]

Language

English

34) The pilgrim: a novel

Author

Nissenson, Hugh

Publisher

Sourcebooks Landmark

Pub. Date

[2011]

Language

English

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Charles Wentworth, a heartbroken Puritan, comes to the New World from England in 1622 in search of salvation and a new beginning. Burdened with a lifelong struggle between his desire for faith and his doubts about God's love for him, he leaves the only land he has ever known after the death of his fiancée, in hopes of being freed of the temptations that torment him. A new masterpiece from National Book Award and Pen/Faulkner Award finalist Hugh Nissenson,...