The Rainborowes: pirates, Puritans and a family's quest for the promised land

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Between worlds and worlds -- That proud city -- Whom shall we send? -- Such an enemy we have -- From Afric shore -- In freedom equal -- Safe towards Canaan -- Better thou belong -- Dispersed in foreign lands -- Hard liberty -- They on the trading flood -- The brandished sword of God -- War then, war -- And get themselves a name -- This avenging sword -- By battery, scale, and mine -- The wasteful deep -- My sect thou seest -- Of rebel angels -- War in Heaven and battle proud -- The great consult began -- Disobedience -- In mutiny -- The rebel king -- The dire event -- Loud lament and furious rage -- My other self -- Their solitary way -- A land and times obscure.;The period between 1630 and 1660 was one of the most tumultuous in Western history, witnessing the birth of New England and, in the mother country, a chaotic civil war that rent the very fabric of English social, political, and religious life. At the center of this turbulent time was an outsized family: the Rainborowes. Shipmasters and soldiers, entrepreneurs and idealists, they bridged two worlds as they struggled to forge a better future for themselves and their kin.