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Away Offshore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
Away Offshore Nantucket Island and Its People 16021890 Author:Nathaniel Philbrick, Diane Swartz (Illustrator) 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, ... more »the tiny island that became the whaling capital of the world.« less