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 first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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) behin...

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informative 100%
adventurous 33%
challenging 33%
reflective 33%
funny 16%

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slow 33%

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