Nantucket Shipwreck Museum

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

By Nathaniel Philbrick

“For everyone who loves Nantucket, this is the indispensable book.” – Russell Baker
This local best-seller focuses on the real people – great and obscure, famous and infamous – behind the island at the center of a whaling empire. 1994, $19.95 paper