Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People
273 pages
|Published: 1 Dec 1993
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ISBN: 9780963891013
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Mill Hill Press
Publication date: 15 April 2011
Description
The history of Nantucket Island has too often been reduced to a collection of quaint legends and warmed-over whaling tales. In contrast, Nathaniel Philbrick's Away off Shore focuses on the real people (great and obscure, famous and infamous) behind one of America's most extraordinary success stories: Nantucket, the tiny island that became the whaling capital of the world.
