Author:Nick Bunker
At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the Northern Hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Great Lakes, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning of doom or a promise of salvation.
Two years later, as the Pilgrims prepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, the atmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men and women readied themselves for war, pestilence or divine retribution. Against this background, and amid deep economic depression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile.
Within a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built a thriving settlement at New Plymouth, based on beaver fur, corn and cattle. In doing so, they laid the foundations for Massachusetts, New England and a new nation.
Using a wealth of new evidence - from landscape, archaeology and hundreds of overlooked or neglected documents - Nick Bunker gives a vivid and strikingly original account of the Mayflower project and the first decade of the Plymouth Colony. Making Haste from Babylon tells the story of the early pilgrim settlers in unrivalled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America.
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 ReviewEven 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 TimesMaking 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 MagazineThis new history has made those supposedly dull Puritans crackle with narrative energy and fizz with vibrant colour as never before
—— Christopher Silvester , Daily ExpressAn 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 SupplementThe 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 upTimely... 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 TelegraphAdmirable
—— New York TimesSweeping, extensively researched
—— Leo McKinstry , ExpressButterworth writes lucidly, in fine detail
—— Peter Preston , ObserverThis is an exhilarating gallop through the history of anarchism
—— Financial TimesHistorian Butterworth makes a first-rate addition to the growing list of books dealing with terrorism's origins and history... Delivering a virtuoso performance, Butterworth adds the hope that history will not repeat itself and that a successful new bloody ideology will not create the next scourge
—— Publisher's WeeklyThis is entertaining stuff
—— Sunday Times, Christmas Round UpButterworth's fascination with his subject drips from the page...this is entertaining stuff
—— Dominic Sandbrook , Sunday TimesAn astounding story of bitter civil warfare that raged across many countries for decades. Butterworth's passionate account of the anarchist movements born in the late 19th century describes a conflict that spawned its own "war on terror"
—— Steve Burniston , Guardian
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