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Synopsis
In the summer of 1671, at the age of seventy-eight, Governor Thomas Mayhew, founder and sole proprietor of Martha s Vineyard, sailed under escort to Fort James at the tip of Manhattan to explain why he had ignored all taxes, military direction and royal inquiries for twenty-five years. During the week-long interrogation that followed, Mayhew defended the utopian ways of his settlement, the difficult alliance with his evangelical son, his risky collaboration with the Indians and the constant danger of war. Island Wilderness is the account he might have given of those years. Based on original records and extensive historical research, here is the story of a village balancing the authority of kings against the idea of democracy, families caught between English and Indian cultures, and one old man s struggle to reconcile his official duties with the wild beauty of the new world. Like the forensic anatomist who builds up a real life image by adding muscle, flesh and skin to a few fragments of ancient skull, Burns has added back the anguish, the intrigue, the humor and the love that is often bleached from history, creating the first new account of the island s early years since Banks History of Martha s Vineyard, 95 years ago.
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Christopher Burns was a senior executive at The Washington Post, Associate Publisher of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, and Executive Editor of UPI. He lives with his family on Martha's Vineyard.
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