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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. Viking Penguin, 2006. See the Mayflower page on this website for a description and excerpt.
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Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery—The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Viking Penguin, 2003. See the Sea of Glory page on this website for a description and excerpt.
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Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex. Putnam Juvenile, 2002. The story of the Essex for young readers.
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. Viking Penguin, 2000. See the In the Heart of the Sea page on this website for a description and excerpt.
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Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor’s Odyssey. Mill Hill Press, 1999. At 22, Nat Philbrick won the Sunfish North American Championship. Fifteen years later he decided to give it another try, embarking on a personal voyage of discovery that took him from the many ponds of Nantucket to the championship in the American heartland.
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Abram’s Eyes: The Native American Legacy of Nantucket Island. Mill Hill Press, 1998. The little known story of Nantucket’s Native past. Generously illustrated, including a detailed map of the island’s Indian place-names, this book brings a fresh and exciting perspective to Nantucket’s history.
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890. Mill Hill Press, 1994. This local bestseller focuses on the real people—great and obscure, famous and infamous—behind the island at the center of a whaling empire.
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The Passionate Sailor. Contemporary Press, 1987. A humorous look at the modern-day sailing scene, with illustrations by Gary Patterson.
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Books edited by Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick
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The Mayflower Papers: Selected Writings of Colonial New England. Penguin Books, 2007
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The Private Journal of William Reynolds, United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Penguin Books, 2004.
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The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale, First-Person Accounts. Penguin Books, 2000.
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Introductions and Forewords by Nathaniel Philbrick
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Remarkable Observations: The Whaling Journal of Peleg Folger, 1751-1754, edited by Thomas Philbrick. Mill Hill Press, 2006.
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A Night to Remember by Walter Lord. The fiftieth anniversary edition of this classic account of the final hours of the Titanic. Owl Books, 2005.
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Nantucket: The Quiet Season
by Cary Hazlegrove. Chronicle Books, 2005.
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The 150th anniversary edition of Melville’s classic. Penguin Books, 2001.
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American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology, edited by Peter Neill. The Library of America, 2000.
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Miriam Coffin, or The Whale-Fisherman by Joseph C. Hart. The 1834 Nantucket novel that was a source for Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Reprinted by Mill Hill Press, 1995.
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