MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aF72.N2$bP47 2011
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100 1 $aPhilbrick, Nathaniel.
245 10 $aAway off shore :$bNantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890 /$cNathaniel Philbrick.
246 30 $aNantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Books ;$a[Nantucket, Mass.] :$bPublished in association with Mill Hill Press,$c2011.
300 $axvi, 325 p. :$bmaps ;$c21 cm.
500 $a"First published in the United States of America by Mill Hill Press 1994"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAn 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.
651 0 $aNantucket Island (Mass.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aNantucket Island (Mass.)$vBiography.