Away off shore : Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890 by Philbrick, Nathaniel instant download

Away off shore : Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890 by Philbrick, Nathaniel instant download

xvi, 325 p. : 21 cm, \"First published in the United States of America by Mill Hill Press 1994; this edition with a new preface published in Penguin Books 2011\"--T.p. verso, Includes bibliographical references and index, 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