Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of what courage means and how a young boy learned to overcome his fears. Based on an actual incident in Maine during King Phillip's War in 1676 - because of the Indian raids the Potts family and their neighbors left their homes to travel offshore to Jewell Island. There they felt so safe they left nine year old Thomas Potts to guard the fort. When Thomas saw the Indians lower their war canoes off Cliff Island, he fired the shot that saved the island. Illustrated with drawings by J. C. Kocsis.
Condition: Very good in gold cloth in a fair only dust jacket (2 long tears to back cover of dj, other edgewear, upper corner of front flap clipped, but price of 3.25 still present in lower corner).
New York: Viking, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the arrival of the Mayflower on the coast of New England, and of the 55 years following that landing. "The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native Americans as disease spread by European fishermen devastated their populations. Initially the two groups - the Wampanoags, under the charismatic and calculating chief Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, whose pugnacious military officer Miles Standish was barely five feet tall - maintained a fragile working relationship. But within decades, New England would erupt into King Philip's War, a savagely bloody conflict that nearly wiped out English colonists and natives alike and forever altered the face…
New York: Viking, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the arrival of the Mayflower on the coast of New England, and of the 55 years following that landing. "The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native Americans as disease spread by European fishermen devastated their populations. Initially the two groups - the Wampanoags, under the charismatic and calculating chief Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, whose pugnacious military officer Miles Standish was barely five feet tall - maintained a fragile working relationship. But within decades, New England would erupt into King Philip's War, a savagely bloody conflict that nearly wiped out English colonists and natives alike and forever altered the face of the fledgling colonies and the country that would grow from them. . . a portrait of the dawn of American history - a history dominated right from the start by issues of race, violence, and religion." Illustrated. Maps by Jeffrey Ward. Notes, bibliography and index. xvii, 461 pp. Illustrated map endpapers. ISBN: 0-670037605.
FLIGHT TO JEWELL ISLAND.
MAYFLOWER: A Story of Courage, Community, and War.
