Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890 by Nathaniel Philbrick

Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890

Nathaniel Philbrick

273 pages 1993

5 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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) behin...

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