{"product_id":"thanksgiving-the-pilgrims-first-year-in-america","title":"Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America","description":"Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It's about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.\nThey bowed their heads to give thanks.\nThe Pilgrims' journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but it soon became a matter of survival.\nWith 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, damp space below the main deck, the Mayflower set out on a terrifying 66-day crossing of the Atlantic. They dropped anchor well north of where they'd intended, and just as the New England winter was setting in.\nWith no choice but to spend the winter in the dank, frigid ship, they took ill. One by one, almost half of them died. The few individuals well enough to work rowed the dead to shore and buried them in graves left unmarked so the Indians wouldn't know how weak they were.\nSpring promised only a year of toil and difficulties as they attempted to settle new land in a place they called Plymouth.\nBut then a miracle walked out of the woods...a Patuxet who had already crossed the Atlantic four times. He spoke English very well. He showed them how to catch the local fish and grow the local crops. He introduced them to the local people, and in an experience unique in colonial history, Europeans and Indians became friends and allies.\nAnd that autumn, the new and native Americans came together for a feast that lasted three days.\nThanksgiving is a book of fact that all but breathes with the human drama of life, death, birth, hope, prayer, work, desperation, and thanks.\nThough these few dozen people were hardly the first Europeans to settle in North America, their values and beliefs grew into the American culture. Americans are what the Pilgrims were.\nEvery American should read this book before bowing for grace on Thanksgiving Day.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 097980390X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.097980390X.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Cheney, Glenn Alan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47359492096177,"sku":"RDV.097980390X.VG","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/097980390X-0.jpg?v=1780426224","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/thanksgiving-the-pilgrims-first-year-in-america","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}