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This is the book's own stage: Governor William Bradford stands in golden light and reads his history aloud — the first 72 seconds of the Introduction & Chapter One, The Root and Rise of the Plantation, over the book's 36-second stage loop, played twice. The barcode rides every frame — scan any moment to come back to this bookstore.
“I must begine at the very roote & rise of the same. The which I shall endevor to manefest in a plaine stile, with singuler regard unto the simple trueth in all things…”
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From the Middle — Chapter 6: The Adventurers and the Provisions
WILLIAM BRADFORD
The Leyden church has resolved to remove to America; now come the hard dealings with the merchant adventurers who would furnish the voyage — the terms, the provisions, and the first gathering of the company. This passage sits at the heart of Volume One: the sailing itself is still ahead.
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What’s Inside
- The Introduction and Chapters 1–10, and the Remainder of Anno 1620 — complete: 32,774 words, Bradford's own text exactly as he wrote it, closing in his own words: “I shall begine ye year 1621.” Volume Two takes up the history at Anno 1621.
- 3 hours 13 minutes of narration — Governor William Bradford himself stands in golden light on the stage and reads his own history aloud, page by page, in a reading room you can follow with your eyes.
- The plates — the Mayflower Compact in Bradford's own hand (facsimile), Halsall's Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor (1882), and Weir's Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1843).
- The second book of the Mayflower line — behind Book One, Mourt's Relation · The Mayflower Journal · 1622, and ahead of Volumes Two–Five of the Plantation history, all at $79.
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This is the public-domain text of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation (Project Gutenberg transcription #24950), presented as a talking hologram book, with all modern editorial matter removed and Bradford's spelling untouched. The narration is a performed reading of that public-domain text, made for this edition. No portrait of Bradford painted from life survives, and the book says so plainly in its disclaimer, which stands first, before the book begins. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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