Download or read book Nantucket a History written by Robert Alexander Douglas-Lithgow and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association written by Nantucket Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Daughters of Nantucket written by Julie Gerstenblatt and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gerstenblatt's distinctive tale, a triumph in storytelling, celebrates the courage and tenacity of women.” —Booklist, starred review Set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear… Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique circumstances. With their menfolk away at sea, often for years at a time, women here know a rare independence—and the challenges that go with it. Eliza Macy is struggling to conceal her financial trouble as she waits for her whaling captain husband to return from a voyage. In desperation, she turns against her progressive ideals and targets Meg Wright, a pregnant free Black woman trying to relocate her store to Main Street. Meanwhile, astronomer Maria Mitchell loves running Nantucket’s Atheneum and spending her nights observing the stars, yet she fears revealing the secret wishes of her heart. On a sweltering July night, a massive fire breaks out in town, quickly kindled by the densely packed wooden buildings. With everything they possess now threatened, these three very different women are forced to reevaluate their priorities and decide what to save, what to let go and what kind of life to rebuild from the ashes of the past. "A memorable story of friendship and courage." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris

Download or read book Talks about Old Nantucket written by Christopher Coffin Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association written by Nantucket Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Heart of the Sea written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three months tested just how far humans could go in their battle against the sea as, one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease and fear. ... This is a timeless account of the human spirit under extreme duress, but it is also a story about a community and about the kind of men and women who lived in a forbidding, remote island like Nantucket. -- Dust jacket.

Download or read book The Elementary School Teacher written by Dorothy G. Petersen and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1964 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book List of Books Added from January 1st 1900 to January 1st 1908 written by Free Public Library (New Bedford, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christian Register and Boston Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Coffyn Coffin Dynasty written by Marijane Coffyn and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-08 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coffyn/Coffin Dynasty is a genealogical recapitulation of fifteen generations born in the United States. At first, I was going to title it The Coffin Saga Continues, but R. Gardner and Louis Coffin expired. I fell in love with a wonderful culmination of people belonging to my husband's family. I added the years before the stepping on US soil. There are millions more of people out there to be added. One can enjoy reading cover to cover about so many important individuals such as presidents, a Union Station president, aviators, college owners, and patented people besides farmers, teachers, doctors, etc. It is not the norm of "born and died" information.

Download or read book The Story of Old Nantucket a Brief History of the Island and Its People from Its Discovery Down to the Present Day written by William Francis Macy and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1876 1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 written by Raymond John Howgego and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 732 major articles, Raymond Howgego's Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 attempts to detail every significant traveller, voyager or expedition that set out during the period. Its indexes provide the names of over 3000 travellers and 1000 ships, while the bibliographies cite more than 10,000 works of reference. Extensive biographical information is included for the travellers themselves, placing every expedition thoroughly in its historical context. The text is fully cross-referenced between articles, whilst every article is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary sources.

Download or read book United States Local Histories in the Library of Congress Atlantic states Maine to New York written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Coffin Family written by Louis Coffin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tristram Coffin was born in 1605 at Brixton, Devonshire, England, the son of Peter and Joanna Thember Coffin. He married Dionis Stevens, daughter Robert Stevens of Brixton. They had nine children, 1631-1652. The family immigrated to America in 1642 and settled first at Haverhill. They moved to Newbury in 1648, then to Salisbury in 1654, and to Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1680. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New York, and elsewhere.

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nantucket Genealogies written by Alexander Starbuck and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Nantucket was settled in the 1640s by English Puritans who had grown discontented with the rule of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. This work consists of detailed genealogies of the majority of the First Purchasers of Nantucket (the original owners of the island, as they were called). It is excerpted from Alexander Starbuck's much longer "History of Nantucket County, Island, and Town," constituting the final 200 pages of that opus. The volume begins with biographical sketches of the First Purchasers.