The romantic story of the Mayflower pilgrims, and its place in the life of to-day

The narrative traces a religious separatist community's origins in English towns, their arrests and flight to Holland, and their later transatlantic voyage and settlement in New England, combining biographical sketches of individual settlers with descriptions of their trials, the first years in the colony, and the subsequent fates of the founders. It interweaves local topography and surviving memorials, presents illustrations and accounts of sites in England, Holland, and the New World, and concludes by describing twentieth-century commemorations and the effort to preserve their memory.