Pilgrim Fathers Leiden

Ichthusboekhandel presenteert in Leiden de Pilgrims Fathers's Route, een stadswandeling door de binnenstad van deze oude Sleutelstad, die de rijkdom van haar geschiedenis toont.

In deze rondleiding treden we in de voetsporen van de Pilgrim Fathers. Wanneer in 2020 wereldwijd herdenkingen zijn van het feit dat ze 400 jaar geleden vertrokken uit Leiden is er nog steeds heel veel wat herinnert aan hen en de impact op de stad.

Een stadswandeling die u in anderhalf uur voert door de stad en het verhaal vertelt. Niet alleen het verhaal van de Pilgrim Fathers, maar ook de geschiedenis van de Statenvertaling en de kwestie van Gomarus en Arminius, twee Leidse hoogleraren die van mening verschilden.

Leiden wordt de stad van ontdekkingen genoemd. En hoewel Leiden ooit groter was dan Amsterdam (rond 1700 ) is het nu nog steeds een prachtig geconserveerde binnenstad die altijd in beweging is. Niet alleen door de duizenden studenten, maar ook de vele expats die er wonen en werken. De oudste universiteit van Nederland en talloze leuke musea. Kortom Leiden is absoluut de moeite waard om een dag naar toe te gaan.

Het boek de Avontuurlijke reis van de Mayflower, geschreven door J. Beens, vertelt het verhaal van de Pilgrim Fathers, vanuit het perspectief van twee kinderen. Deze groep van oorspronkelijk Engelse Puriteinen, vertrokken vanuit Leiden naar Amerika via Rotterdam Delfshaven. Daar werden zij de Founding Fathers van wat later de Verenigde Staten van Amerika werden.

Jonathan Brewster en Marc Woodpecker zijn veertien jaar als ze in Amsterdam aankomen. Ze kennen geen woord Nederlands, maar dat leren ze gauw. En ze vinden gelukkig ook werk. Dat hun ouders na drie jaar besluiten naar Leiden te verhuizen, is minder leuk, maar ook dat went.

Lastiger wordt het als de meeste Puriteinen na tien jaar nieuwe verhuisplannen maken, nu naar de Nieuwe Wereld. Jonathan blijft in Leiden, Marc stapt op het zeilschip de Mayflower. En dat is niet zonder gevaren. Op de onstuimige Atlantische Oceaan lijkt het schip te vergaan. De tocht over zee in maar liefst zes en zestig dagen is erbarmelijk door uitputting, koude en ziekte. Waar zijn ze aan begonnen? En dan raakt Marc na aankomst ook nog zoek. Waar is hij…? Spelen de Indianen wellicht een rol bij zijn verdwijning? En zullen zijn vader en vriend hem ooit terugzien?

In 2020 is het 400 jaar geleden dat ongeveer 150 Engelse Puriteinen vanwege geloofsvervolging vanuit Nederland naar Amerika vertrokken.. In Amerika hopen ze in vrijheid God te kunnen dienen. Sommige Amerikaanse presidenten stammen regelrecht af van deze kolonisten.

Het boek over de Pilgrim Fathers van Frans Verhagen is het historische verhaal van de reis met de Mayflower en de Leidse periode van deze 'eerste kolonisten' van Amerika. Het verschijnt ter gelegenheid van het 400 jarig jubileum van het vertrek met de Mayflower naar Amerika in 1620.

Pilgrim Fathers van Frans Verhagen vertelt het historische verhaal van de reis met de Mayflower. Leiden, 1620. Een groep elf jaar eerder uit Engeland gevluchte puriteinen maakt zich zorgen: hoe kunnen zij hun geloof zuiver houden in het libertijnse Nederland? Ze besluiten de oceaan over te steken, om in de Nieuwe Wereld een nieuw bestaan op te bouwen.

Voor de oostkust van de huidige Verenigde Staten ondertekenen 41 van de kolonisten het Mayflower Compact, waarin ze bepalen een gemeenschap met zelfbestuur op te richten.

Frans Verhagen vertelt in Pilgrim Fathers op toegankelijke wijze het intrigerende verhaal van de vlucht, de oversteek, het leven in de VS en de mythische rol van deze 'eerste kolonisten' in New England.

Koop uw exemplaar tijdens een bezoek aan de historische binnenstad van Leiden en begin uw reis bij Ichthusboekhandel Leiden om de hoek bij het Pilgrim Fathers Museum.

Zie ook: De Pilgrimfathers route in Leiden

Reserveren kan nu reeds!

Frans Verhagen is Amerika deskundige, oprichter en uitgever van het tijdschrift Amerika.

The book: William Bradford , presents the dramatic story of the founder of the Plymouth Colony, who came to the New World in search of religious freedom, established a stable colony, and was re-elected as governor of the colony more than thirty times.

Filled with maps, paintings, and historical illustrations, this fascinating biography by Gary Schmidt introduces readers to the dramatic story of the William Bradford, the founder of Plymouth Colony. From his early life, to his growing reputation among Pilgrim and Stranger alike on the Mayflower to his days leading the fledgling colony, this engaging account of his life opens a new perspective on Plymouth.

200 pages, softcover.

Almost Home, by Wandy Lawton, is the story of the pilgrims' journey to America and of God's providence and provision.

Several of the characters in the story--Mary Chilton, Constance Hopkins, and Elizabeth Tilley--were actual passengers on the Mayflower. Mary Chilton was a young girl when she left her home in Holland and traveled to America onboard the Mayflower with her parents. While making the pilgrimage from Holland to America in 1620 with other English Separatists, teenaged Mary Chilton endures many hardships that test her faith in God. The journey was not only filled with trials, but also with joy and some surprises. When she reached the New World, she experienced a new life, new freedom, and a new home.

Wendy Lawton has taken the facts of the pilgrims' journey to the New World, and from this information filled in personal details to create a genuine and heart-warming story.

Derek Wilson wrote a book about the Mayflower Pilgrims with the theme Sifting fact from fable.

The voyage of the 'Pilgrim Fathers' from Plymouth, England, and their settlement in Plymouth, New England, is iconic. Unfortunately. Why unfortunately? Because icons both simplify and glamorise. The Mayflower story is a gilded myth, a historical episode seen through the distorting lens of nationalism. Of all the accounts of New World colonisation in the 16th/17th centuries this is the one that has come to typify those qualities today's US citizens admire and believe their nation stands for. And yet the 102 men, women and children who made that journey in the autumn of 1620 would not have recognised themselves in the heroes and heroines portrayed in films and romantic novels over the last century or so.

Derek Wilson strips away the over-painting from the icon in order to discover what motivated the Pilgrim 'Fathers' (a term not invented until 1840), and to explain them against the background of the age in which they lived. He does this by exploring a series of probing questions, each of which narrows the focus until the travellers on the storm-tossed Mayflower stand before us clearly delineated.

In characteristically lucid and vivid prose, Derek Wilson maps the multiple historical paths leading to one of the most famous embarkations in history. A fresh and admirably unsentimental account of the forces shaping the "Pilgrim Fathers".,
Peter Marshall, FBA, FRHistS, Professor of History, University of Warwick

I cannot praise too highly Derek Wilson's prose style, which is both masterful and lively. He writes with great conviction and a breathtaking attention to the kind of personal detail that makes his books such compelling reading.
-- Alison Weir, historian and novelist

Voices of The Mayflower bij author Richard Holledge tells the story of a handful of religious fanatics, brave souls, crooks and cowards who sailed from Europe to New England 400 years ago - some in pursuit of religious freedom but most adventurers in the quest for riches.

The narrative begins in 1602 six years before a small band known as Separatists flee persecution in England for the Netherlands. Exile is a painful disappointment but, undaunted, they sail the Atlantic in a rickety ship used for the Bordeaux wine trade to a world where they hope to create a perfect community.

Half of them die within weeks of landing in New England. For the rest, there is nothing but a heroic struggle to survive famine, plague, 'savages and wild lions'. They are cheated by their London backers and betrayed and almost bankrupted by one of their own. They confound their reputation as God-fearing folk by ruthlessly beheading a Native American chief.

We share moments of love and loyalty - though most marriages are matters of cold convenience. There are stories of idealism and sacrifice but this is not a warm saga of 'pilgrims' living in saintly perfection; some are guilty of greed, duplicity and even murder.

The book Before the Mayflower is the product of three decades of research. This brilliant novel reveals the story (1587-1620), before the famous Atlantic crossing. Rich with details of 16th & 17th century England and Leiden and Holland.

The dramatic path to the Mayflower is illuminated, filled with risk and romance. Who will board the ship? Was it for love, land, or religious freedom?

If you were living in civilized places like England or the Netherlands, why would you consider boarding the Mayflower, bound for the New World? The Atlantic crossing would be a nightmare, with the threat of storms, pirates, and cramped, dark conditions. Even if you reached land, you were destined for a wild place, lacking shelter and filled with uncertainty. Your odds of survival hovered at fifty percent.

Enter the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a time of transition from Queen Elizabeth to King James in England, and in the Netherlands, the Dutch Golden Age. The story of the thirty-three years leading up to the famous Mayflower voyage is told in this meticulously researched novel, combining known names like Brewster and Bradford, with the fictional London family of printer Nicholas Okes.

The printing press connects the characters, with some obeying the King's rules, and others fleeing to the Netherlands for religious freedom and printing forbidden works. Romance ripples through the families, leading them to the docks in Southampton, waiting in the shadow of the ships. Who will venture aboard, and will it be for love, land, or religious freedom?

Table of Contents:

Donations Page
Introduction
Dedication
Aknowledgements

Part 1

1: To the Tower
2: The Printer
3: Westward Ho, Back to Biblio
4: A Change of Reign
5: The Letters
6: The Sign of The Rose (Okes Residence)

Part 2

7: Removal from Amsterdam to Leyden
8: Visit to the Verger
9: Death Escapes No One
10: Wool and Books
11: John Robinson's Congregation and the Green Close
12: The Printers
13: 1615
14: 1616
15: 1617
16: 1618
17: 1619
18: 1620

Additions:
* Main Character List; Fact or Fiction
* Intentional Historical "Errors"
* Suggested Reading
* Touring the Novel's Path
* About the Author

Walking in the footsteps of the Pilgrim Fathers in Leiden. They left leiden city in1620 and going to Delfshaven and the Mayflower for going to the New Land, where they arrived in Plymouth.

Ichthusboekhandel made a route through the old streets of Leiden. You are welcome to the history of the Pilgrim Fathers, The Statenvertaling (the bible like the KJV) and the dispute of Gomarus and Arminius which take place in the city with the first university of the Netherlands.

The City Walk of the Pilgrim Fathers is for an hour (short) and one and a half hour for the long walk. You see the places where the Pilgrim Fathers lives. You see places you cann't even image that in this time it looks the same way as in 1620.

On this walk you find also the Pilgrim Fathers Museum in the Beschuitsteeg, near to Ichthusbookstore.