| Edition |
First American hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xii, 402 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-384) and index. |
| Contents |
Building New Westminster -- Educating Essex -- The Seaflower -- Cake, ale, and painful preaching: a Banbury tale -- The first voyage to the Miskito Coast -- The pride of the righteous -- The Africans, "during their strangeness from Christianity" -- "A nest of thieves and pirates" -- "Raw potatoes and turtle meat" -- The last days of their Lordships' Isle -- "Little more than the summit of a hill" -- The Western design -- The rise of Port Royal and the recapture of Providence -- Henry Morgan, Admiral of the Brethren -- Mariners, castaways, and renegades -- The last Englishman -- "A sort of lying that makes a great hole in the heart" -- How the light came in -- Modern times -- "Maybe they don't know what is an island" -- "Still a little behind the times" |
| Note |
Originally published: United Kingdom : Explore Books, 2017. |
| Summary |
"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 that make Providence a symbol of how the Western world took shape."--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Providence Island (Colombia) -- History.
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Puritans -- Colombia -- Providence Island -- History.
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British -- Colombia -- Providence Island -- History -- 17th century.
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West Indies -- History -- 17th century.
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| Added Title |
Lost history of the Mayflower's sister ship and its rival Puritan colony |
| ISBN |
9781612197081 hardcover : $28.99 |
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1612197086 hardcover |
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