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　　At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the

night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the

Arctic, 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. From mercantile London and the rural England of

Queen Elizabeth I and King James I to the mountains and rivers of

Maine, he weaves a rich narrative that combines religion, politics,

money, science, and the sea.

The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals,

political radicals as well as Christian idealists. Making Haste

from Babylon tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots

in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final

creation of a permanent foothold in America.

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　　A graduate of King’s College, Cambridge, with a master’s

degree from Columbia University, Nick Bunker has had a

diverse career in finance and journalism. A former investment

banker and reporter for the Financial Times, he now lives

with his wife, Susan, in Lincolnshire, England.

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　　“One opens this book with a weary sense of resignation. More

hagiography about national origins? Another group of founders? The

Pilgrims? The Mayflower? The Compact? The first Thanksgiving? A

‘new history’? Please! Enough already. And yet . . . it’s not like

that, not at all. To the contrary, Nick Bunker offers a remarkably

fresh take on (it’s true) an old and well-worn story. . . . The

evidence . . . adds up to a picture so full and vivid as to

constitute a virtual ground-level tour of an otherwise lost world.”

—The Washington Post

　　“A meticulous exploration of the lives of the Pilgrims before

they even set sail. . . . It’s a comprehensive work of genius and a

delight to read.” —GalleyCat.com

　　“A wonderfully engaging study. . . . There is so much here that

is fresh and invigorating that Making Haste from Babylon will seem

to some lovers of early American history a real page-turner with

new readings and perceptive takes in each chapter. Bunker has

written that rarest of books—a scholarly history with all the

narrative punch of a novel.” —The Providence Journa

　　“Bunker . . . is simply a marvelous writer with a nose for the

fascinating anecdote. . . . There’s some intriguing fact or story

on every page . . . so much of Making Haste from Babylon [is] rich

in the thrill of brushing up against the past and its fathomless

mysteries.” —Salon.com

　　“A bold work of revisionism.” —Harper’s Magazine

　　“Making Haste from Babylon is essential reading for those who

think they know the story of the Pilgrims. . . . All this and more

Bunker relates with enviable concision and verve.” —BBC History

Magazine

　　“Prodigious . . . [Bunker’s] vivid style and bold analysis infuse

this book with colour and pace, and the result is an indispensable

contribution to understanding how it all began.” —Literary

Review

　　"This superb book secures for the Pilgrims their iconic perch

among the earliest founders of colonial America. Bunker…has

succeeded in writing a major history, unprecedented in its sweep,

of the Plymouth Colony. . . . Never before has such a comprehensive

and thoroughly researched study of the subject appeared. . . . The

results are stunning. Certain to be the dominating work on the

Pilgrims for decades.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

　　“Nick Bunker has done the seemingly impossible: he has shed new

light on the oldest of stories, the epic of the Pilgrims'

experience in the Old and New Worlds.  With graceful writing

and diligent scholarship, he has given us an engaging and original

book.” —Jon Meacham

　　“I have rarely read a book which combines such a breadth of

canvas...with such penetrating and detailed research.” —Patrick

Collinson, Professor of Modern History, Cambridge University

(emeritus)

　　“In this beautifully written and imagined book, impeccably

researched, and full of  so many fresh insights and 

discoveries,  Nick Bunker has given us the most grounded and

convincing portrait  yet achieved of what drove the Pilgrim

Fathers to seek their faith and fortune in the New World. . . .

Combining intensive archive research with a time traveler’s

eye  he conjures  a wonderfully evocative  sense of

place. . . . It is a fabulous tale of our ancestors, but also the

true founding moment of America.” —Michael Wood, British historian,

documentary filmmaker, and broadcaster

书籍介绍

At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across the night sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to the Arctic, 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. From mercantile London and the rural England of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I to the mountains and rivers of Maine, he weaves a rich narrative that combines religion, politics, money, science, and the sea.

The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. Making Haste from Babylon tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America.