The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World

7 best books like The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World (Nathaniel Philbrick): The Department of Sensitive Crimes, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, The Founding Fish, Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers, The Revolving Door of Life, Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

The Department of Sensitive Crimes

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	1524748218

The Department of Sensitive Crimes is Scandinavian Blanc, vastly different from Scandinavian Noir. There is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, Detective Inspector in the Sensitive Crimes Department of the Criminal Investigation Authority for the city of Malmö, Sweden. Ulf is concerned...

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free

Author	Héctor Tobar
ISBN	0374280606

When the San Jos mine collapsed outside of Copiap, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. Across the globe, we sat riveted to television and computer screens as journalists flocked to the Atacama desert. While...

The Founding Fish

Author	John McPhee
ISBN	0374528837

John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts...

Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	1846972531

As a comic novelist myself, I really ought to hate Alexander McCall Smith. Not because of his extraordinary success, though that's undeniably enviable; nor even because of his ability to churn out fine novels with a regularity that would shame a sausage machine; but because of the sheer facility with...

The Revolving Door of Life

Author	Alexander McCall Smith
ISBN	1846973287

I have probably said this before but I love everything this author writes. And luckily he writes a huge amount!
This book is his latest in this series where I think we all agree the main character is, without doubt, seven year old Bertie. At last we get to see this poor little boy having some fun and getting...

Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

Author	Jeremy Brown
ISBN	1501181246

On the 100th anniversary of the devastating pandemic of 1918, Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the origins of the Great Flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should...

Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II

Author	Mitchell Zuckoff
ISBN	0062133438

On November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on board survived, and the US military launched a daring rescue operation. But after...