Williamsburg Regional Library

The island that disappeared, the lost history of the Mayflower's sister ship and its rival Puritan colony, Tom Feiling

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-384) and index

maps

no index present

non fiction

The island that disappeared

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992182707

Tom Feiling

the lost history of the Mayflower's sister ship and its rival Puritan colony

"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

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"

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Lost history of the Mayflower's sister ship and its rival Puritan colony