Edited for the modern reader by Harold Paget
Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation is a journal written by William Bradford between 1630 and 1651 that tells the history of the pilgrims from when they left England in 1608 and settled in the Dutch Republic through the year 1647. The document goes by several names: most commonly it is named Bradford’s History Of Plymouth Plantation but is also been called William Bradford's Journal. The journal was not intended for publication; Bradford wrote that he hoped that "their children may see with what difficulties their fathers wrestled in going through these things in their first beginnings, and how God brought them along notwithstanding all their weaknesses and infirmities”. The document has a dramatic history: it disappeared from the Old South Meeting House in Boston during the Revolutionary War and was lost until discovered in the Bishop of London's library in 1856 and brought back into print. After some years of controversy, the document was returned to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1897 and is now deposited in the State Library of Massachusetts. The Bradford journal is regarded by historians as the preeminent work of 17th century America. Samuel Elliot Morrison wrote that Bradford’s simple, yet vivid account made the pilgrims the "spiritual ancestors of all Americans".
Read by: David Leeson
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Type: Solo reading
Media: MP3 CD
Package: CD jacket
Item No.: CJ-1303
EAN: 0682550992990
List Price: $9.99
Book Coordinator: David Leeson
Meta Coordinator: TriciaG
Proof Listener: Brenda Price
Cover: The First Thanksgiving, 1621, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930), between c. 1912 - c. 1915.
Inset: Image extracted from page 83 of British Enterprise beyond the Seas; or, the Planting of our Colonies, by FYFE, J. Hamilton
Inset: Portrait of William Bradford, 17th century, artist unknown.
Insert: Page from Bradford's History, on which is the Mayflower Compact. From The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams.
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Track | Track Title | Length |
1 | 01 - Book I Chapter 1 | 15:05 |
2 | 02 - Book I Chapter 2 | 8:00 |
3 | 03 - Book I Chapter 3 | 9:33 |
4 | 04 - Book I Chapter 4 | 9:00 |
5 | 05 - Book I Chapter 5 | 21:22 |
6 | 06 - Book I Chapter 6 | 30:59 |
7 | 07 - Book I Chapter 7 | 18:30 |
8 | 08 - Book I Chapter 8 | 10:11 |
9 | 09 - Book I Chapter 9 | 9:03 |
10 | 10 - Book I Chapter 10 | 13:05 |
11 | 11 - Book II Chapter 1 | 15:59 |
12 | 12 - Book II Chapter 2 | 21:40 |
13 | 13 - Book II Chapter 3 | 30:50 |
14 | 14 - Book II Chapter 4 | 42:55 |
15 | 15 - Book II Chapter 5 | 53:14 |
16 | 16 - Book II Chapter 6 | 21:06 |
17 | 17 - Book II Chapter 7 | 9:08 |
18 | 18 - Book II Chapter 8 | 28:00 |
19 | 19 - Book II Chapter 9 | 24:07 |
20 | 20 - Book II Chapter 10 | 29:18 |
21 | 21 - Book II Chapter 11 | 19:31 |
22 | 22 - Book II Chapter 12 | 28:00 |
23 | 23 - Book II Chapter 13 | 9:24 |
24 | 24 - Book II Chapter 14 | 13:46 |
25 | 25 - Book II Chapter 15 | 19:24 |
26 | 26 - Book II Chapter 16 | 22:27 |
27 | 27 - Book II Chapter 17 | 15:56 |
28 | 28 - Book II Chapter 18 | 20:32 |
29 | 29 - Book II Chapter 19 | 9:12 |
30 | 30 - Book II Chapter 20 | 13:23 |
31 | 31 - Book II Chapter 21 | 14:54 |
32 | 32 - Book II Chapter 22 | 4:18 |
33 | 33 - Book II Chapter 23 | 26:17 |
34 | 34 - Book II Chapter 24 | 7:03 |
35 | 35 - Book II Chapter 35 | 17:08 |
36 | 36 - Book II Chapter 26; Names of the Mayflower Passengers | 12:44 |