The drama, adventure, and humor of day-to-day experience abound in this living history of what it felt like to come to America in the fall of 1620. The Mayflower's passengers arrive in the New World, explore the Cape Cod shore for a place to build homes, tentatively encounter Native Americans for the first time, and thrill at the abundance of the land. They struggle through their first long, hard winter and, by spring of 1621, build their settlement at Plymouth.

William Bradford and other members of the Mayflower Company tell their own story in these authentic journals. Edited and modernized just enough for contemporary readers, the language retains the vigor of the original King James English. Homes in the Wilderness was edited by Margaret Wise Brown, well-known author of the best-selling children's book, Goodnight, Moon.

This is a story, a history, and a reference. It includes the names of Mayflower passengers, a glossary of old words, and clear line drawings and maps.

From the back of the 1988 Linnet edition