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N. C. Wyeth's Pilgrims


By Robert San Souci

Reading Level: Early Elementary School, Late Elementary School, Middle School
Genre: Non Fiction
Publisher: Chronicle Books 1991

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This book provides a readable account of the Pilgrim's journey aboard the Mayflower and their first year in New England. The illustrations, by American artist N.C. Wyeth, are taken from his murals of Plymouth Colony commissioned in 1940 by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in New York.

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