num_pages: 273
description: The history of Nantucket Island has too often been reduced to a collection of quaint legends and warmed-over whaling tales. In contrast, Nathaniel Philbrick's Away off Shore 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.
language: English
title: Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People
titlecomplete: Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People
genres: Historical, History, Travel, American History, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 822
places: Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
publisher: Mill Hill Press