A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
Reading edition
MOURT’S RELATION A RELATION OR JOURNAL of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth in New England, by certain English adventurers both merchants and others.
Edited from the original printing of 1622, with introduction and notes, by Dwight B. Heath
CONSULTING EDITOR: HENRY BAMFORD PARKES
CORINTH BOOKS NEW YORK
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DWIGHT B. HEATH has done extensive ethnographic field work among various Indian tribes in Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States, in the course of earning his A.B. at Harvard College and Ph.D. at Yale. As Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, one of his subsidiary interests is ethnohistory, analyzing historical sources from anthropological perspectives.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 62-17660 Copyright © 1963 Dwight B. Heath
The cover illustration, “Pilgrims Going to Church” by George H. Boughton (1867), is from the Robert L. Stuart Collection of the New York Historical Society and reproduced with their kind permission.
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