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

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick

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Publisher: Mill Hill Press

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Copyright: 1993

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Pages: 273

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Cover Price: $ 19.95

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History of Nantucket Island 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.

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The island of Nantucket off the south coast of Massachusetts rose to become the principal whaling port in the world. Whale oil was a staple of domestic life before petroleum became developed, and whaling ships pursued the huge marine mammals around the world.