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This is the book's own stage: Governor William Bradford stands in golden light and reads the Pilgrims' journal aloud — the first 72 seconds of the book's opening, its 1622 title page and dedication, over the book's 36-second stage loop, played twice. The barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
“…with their difficult passage, their safe arrival, their joyful building of, and comfortable planting themselves in the now well defended town of New Plymouth.”
That is how the journal describes its own voyage — printed at London in 1622, the year after the landing. Press Next to step into the middle of the book.
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From the Middle — The Journal: Spring & the First Planting
WILLIAM BRADFORD
It is January of the first winter. The town is going up in two rows of houses; Bradford himself is struck down by a sudden grief and pain — and, through God's mercy, recovers; and two of the company, John Goodman and Peter Brown, lose themselves a freezing night in the woods, with a mastiff and a spaniel for company. The same chapter runs on to Samoset walking into the settlement speaking English, the peace made with Massasoit, and Squanto's planting lessons that saved the colony.
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What’s Inside
- The complete 1622 book — nothing added, nothing taken away: 28,215 words: the title page and dedication, To the Reader, the Certain Useful Advertisements with Pastor Robinson's letter, the Journal of the voyage and the first year, the journeys to Pokanoket, Nauset and Nemasket, and the voyage to the Massachusets, Winslow's Letter Home — the first written account of the harvest feast the world now calls the First Thanksgiving — closing with Cushman's Reasons and Considerations.
- 2 hours 41 minutes of narration — Governor William Bradford himself stands in golden light on the stage and reads the journal aloud, with the complete text in a reading room you can follow with your eyes, the 1622 edition's own printed sidenotes kept as notes.
- The passenger-roll plate — Bradford's own roll of the Mayflower company, taken from his great history: all 102 who sailed, family by family with his count beside each name — Oceanus Hopkins, born on the voyage, and Peregrine White, born at anchor in Cape Cod harbour among them.
- The plates — the Mayflower Compact in Bradford's own hand (facsimile), Halsall's Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor (1882), Weir's Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1843), and Brownscombe's First Thanksgiving (1914).
- The first book of the Mayflower line — Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation follows in five volumes (Volumes One and Two already live), all at $79.
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This is the public-domain text of Mourt's Relation (London, 1622), in the Project Gutenberg transcription #66359 (the Heath edition), presented as a talking hologram book, with all modern editorial matter removed and the original spelling untouched. The narration is a performed reading of that public-domain text, made for this edition. No portrait of Bradford painted from life survives, and the book says so plainly in its disclaimer, which stands first, before the book begins. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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