Summary
The enthralling history of one English family who changed the world through the turbulent years of the Civil War and birth of the New World
The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World.
Starting with William Rainborowe, a prominent merchant-mariner and shipmaster, and his equally formidable sons and daug…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099555759 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099555751 |
| Author: | Adrian Tinniswood |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 27mm |
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This absorbing book brings us as close as we can get to [Thomas Rainborowe] and to the sturdy, courageous colonists that formed his astounding views.
This absorbing book brings us as close as we can get to [Thomas Rainborowe] and to the sturdy, courageous colonists that formed his astounding views. – Diane Purkiss * The Times *
Adrian Tinniswood, so gifted and spirited a communicator of serious history to a wide readership, here brings a number of themes from his previous books together… Tinniswood is ‘not even sure’ that he ‘likes’ the Rainborowes…but he could hardly have done more to bring them to life or to capture their part in the convulsions of their time. – Blair Worden * Spectator *
Remarkable and enthralling… Adrian Tinniswood has an eye for a good tale. – Philip Withington * Guardian *
An engrossing study of two brothers’ ferocious commitment to Cromwell and the Puritan mission to colonise the New World… In this well researched history of the family and their influence, Tinniswood conjures an England of holy-rolling, anti-rational sectarians and Cromwellites of every stripe. – Ian Thomson * Observer *
Fascinating… Tinniswood’s main aim here is not, in the end, to prove an abstract argument, but to tell some very good stories – something he does extremely well, with a command of atmospheric detail and a fund of human sympathy. – Noel Malcolm * Sunday Telegraph *
Globalisation comes to mind when reading The Rainborowes. – Thomas Quinn * Big Issue *
Tinniswood’s exceptional account succeeds in bringing the idealistic, God-fearing and often violent Rainborowes to life, while at the same time exploring the perils involved in trying to build a new state in two very different but intimately connected societies. – Ian Critchley * Sunday Times *
A fascinating truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story. * Stourbridge Chronicle *
A masterful history of Olde and New England during the turbulent years of the Civil War. – Amanda Foreman * Mail on Sunday *
So impressive… Tinniswood writes in a fluent, engaging style, and has an impressive ability to recount a telling detail that simultaneously provides a larger historical perspective. The Rainborowes will appeal to a broad range of readers. – Claire Jowitt * BBC History Magazine *
About The Author
Adrian Tinniswood
Adrian Tinniswood is professorial research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham, adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of many books on British history, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Long Weekend. He was awarded an OBE for services to heritage, and lives in the west of Ireland.
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