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Away off shore, Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890, Nathaniel Philbrick

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Away off shore, Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890, Nathaniel Philbrick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Away off shore

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

695683607

Responsibility statement

Nathaniel Philbrick

Sub title

Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890

Table Of Contents

Map of the town of Nantucket, 1858 -- Rev. F.C. Ewer's map of Nantucket, 1869 -- 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

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