Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People book cover

Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People

Pages: 273
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Published: 1 Dec 1993
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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.