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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2017]Edition: First American hardcover editionDescription: xii, 402 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781612197081
  • 1612197086
Other title:
  • Lost history of the Mayflower's sister ship and its rival Puritan colony
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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"
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.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans of the Mayflower --but what about the story of its sister ship, the Seaflower .

Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower , who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. They were convinced that England's empire would rise not in barren New England, but rather in tropical Central America.

However, Providence became a colony in constant crisis: crops failed, slaves revolted . . . and then there were the pirates. And, as Tom Feiling discovers in this surprising history, the same drama was played out by the men and women who re-settled the island one hundred years later.

The Island That Disappeared presents Providence as a fascinating microcosm of colonialism--even today. At first glance it is an island of devout churchgoers - but look a little closer, and you see that it is still dependent on its smugglers.

At once intimate and global, this story of puritans and pirates goes to the heart of the contradictory nature of the Caribbean and how the Western World took shape.

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

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"

Originally published: United Kingdom : Explore Books, 2017.

"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.

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