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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Philbrick, Nathaniel.     Subjects     Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- History.     Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Philbrick, Nathaniel.       by title:      Away off shore : Nan...         MARC Display

Away off shore : Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890 / Nathaniel Philbrick. by Philbrick, Nathaniel. New York : Penguin Books ; [Nantucket, Mass.] : Published in association with Mill Hill Press, 2011. Subjects Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- History.   Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780143120124 (paperback) 0143120123 (paperback) Description:  xvi, 325 pages : maps ; 21 cm Contents:  An island and its altar -- Native origins : Maushop, Roqua, Wonoma, and Autopscot -- Thomas Macy's great escape -- Tristram Coffin, country squire -- "An island full of Indians" : King Philip, John Gibbs, and Peter Folger -- Gardner versus Coffin : the revolt -- The whaling legacy of Ichabod Paddock -- Mary Starbuck, high priestess of the company store -- Richard Macy, the master builder -- Of God, Indians, and getting by : the hireling, Timothy White -- Peleg Folger, the poet whaleman -- Kezia Coffin's revolutionary rise and fall -- The "removals" : from Jethro Coffin to William Rotch -- A "nest of love" no longer : William Coffin and the bank, commons, and school wars -- The golden boy and the dark man : Obed Starbuck and George Pollard -- Absalom Boston and Abram Quary : "of color" on the Grey Lady -- Maria Mitchell, the provincial cosmopolitan -- F.C. Sanford, the mythmaker -- Epilogue. Requests:  0 Summary:  Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories - great and obscure, famous and infamous - behind what was once the whaling capital of the world.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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