AWAY OFF SHORE: NANTUCKET ISLAND AND ITS PEOPLE, 1602-1890
By Nathaniel Philbrick
1994 Paperback

"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. (276 pp/18 ill)