Away off shore
Subtitle: Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890
By: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin Books; Published in association with Mill Hill Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; [Nantucket, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780143120124
Subjects: Biography; History
Other titles: Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890
Notes: "First published in the United States of America by Mill Hill Press 1994"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An island and its altar; title: Native origins : Maushop, Roqua, Wonoma, and Autopscot; title: Thomas Macy's great escape; title: Tristram Coffin, country squire; title: "An island full of Indians" : King Philip, John Gibbs, and Peter Folger; title: Gardner versus Coffin : the revolt; title: The whaling legacy of Ichabod Paddock; title: Mary Starbuck, high priestess of the company store; title: Richard Macy, the master builder; title: Of God, Indians, and getting by : the hireling, Timothy White; title: Peleg Folger, the poet whaleman; title: Kezia Coffin's revolutionary rise and fall; title: The "removals" : from Jethro Coffin to William Rotch; title: A "nest of love" no longer : William Coffin and the bank, commons, and school wars; title: The golden boy and the dark man : Obed Starbuck and George Pollard; title: Absalom Boston and Abram Quary : "of color" on the Grey Lady; title: Maria Mitchell, the provincial cosmopolitan; title: F.C. Sanford, the mythmaker; title: Epilogue.