![]() ![]() ![]() In a discussion of King James I of England, who actively loathed the Puritans, Bunker includes a graphic description of the monarch’s 1625 autopsy, which he uses to make a sharp point about how the king saw Puritanism as nothing more than a disease. In these early sections, the author makes convincing arguments disputing the conventional notion that the small town of Scrooby was the center of the early Puritan movement, pointing out that the movement was spread across a wide area. ![]() Bunker takes a distinctly wider view, with about half of the narrative concentrating solely on the Puritans’ British origins and their history in Europe before they made their fateful trip. Most stories about the settlers focus on the period after 1620, when the pilgrims first landed in the New World to found Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts. In an ambitious debut, former investment banker and Financial Times writer Bunker sets out a new history of the Mayflower pilgrims. ![]()
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