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Nantucket Summers: The Story of a Family... and a Cottage
by Katherine Stanley-Brown Abbott. All about Sunnycliffe, among the first (1878) of the quintessential 'Sconset cottages built on the bluff, and chronicling three generations of the family that summered in it plus the doings of other 'Sconseters.
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Among the Stars: A Biography of Maria Mitchell
by Margaret Moore Booker
A limited run of an important publishing event marking the release of a definitive, exhaustive study of the famous Nantucketer.
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The Admiral's Academy: Nantucket Island's Historic Coffin School
by Margaret Moore Booker, examines the life of Sir Isaac Coffin and the school he created.
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Sea-Captains’ Houses and Rose-Covered Cottages
Finally a definitive history of Nantucket architecture. Sea-Captains’ Houses and Rose-Covered Cottages by Margaret Moore Booker, Rose Gonnella and Patricia Egan Butler is a long-awaited addition to your Nantucket library with its meticulously researched text and fine photographs and other supporting illustrative material.
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Nantucket Lights: An Illustrated History of the Island's Legendary Beacons
by Karen T. Butler. Handsome design and beautiful illustrations complement this thoroughly researched and lovingly presented tribute to the South Shoals lightship, Brant Point, Great Point, and Sankaty Light and their keepers through the years.
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The Nation of Nantucket
by Frank Byers
A reprint of the classic Nantucket history first published in 1987, with special emphasis on social, business and political trends.
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Historic Nantucket Lightships: New South Shoal 1854-1896
By James W. Claflin. Using descriptive text and a variety of vintage images we get a reare glimpse into the history of this area and the lives of those dedicated to warn, rescur and protect.
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My Boyhood Days in Nantucket
by E.C.Farnham, tells the story of a young man and his escapades during a bygone era (1923).
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Early Nantucket and Its Whale Houses
by Henry Chandlee Forman, is a reprint of a long unavailable classic on early Nantucket architecture and how it got that way.
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Surveying the Shore
by Joseph G. Garver
is a magnificent volume of historic maps of coastal Massachusetts from 1600 until 1930.
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Historic Nantucket Lighthouses: Brant Point is a nifty paperback chronicling the history of our most visible island lighthouse. Dozens of vintage images support the fascinating text.
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Historic Nantucket Lighthouses: Great Point tells the story of the island's most distant lighthouse. Photos and map included
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Historic Nantucket Lighthouses: Sankaty Head chronicles the history of the Sconset lighthouse. Vintage photos accompany the text. Includes map.
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From Brant Point to the Boca Tigris: Nantucket and the China Trade
by Michael Jehle, with an introduction by Carl Crossman. This catalog of the NHA exhibition brilliantly recounts the experiences of the traders and is illustrated with many full-color plates of paintings, porcelains, and artifacts from the NHA's collection and other sources.
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Nantucket's People of Color - Essays on History, Politics and Community
edited by Robert Johnson, Jr.
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Law and Disorder in Old Nantucket
by Frances Karttunen, is a compilation that descibes the dozens of crimes and misdemeanors that pepper Nantucket's History.
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The Other Islanders
by Frances Karttunen
A historical exploration of the cultural diversity of Nantucket by introducing readers to the many non-anglos who have made the island their home.
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Wauwinet
by Jane Lamb, a direct descendant of one of Wauwinet's founders, relates the history of the village's development and gives a picture of the lives of the residents there.
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Wauwinet Unzipped
by Jane Lamb. The "mayor of Wauwinet" once again delves into her storehouse of memory and lets us in on some of the life-styles and antics of the summer colony up-harbor.
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Quaker Nantucket: The Religious Community Behind the Whaling Empire
by Robert Leach and Peter Gow. The long-awaited, eminently readable, definitive work on the philosophy and politics of the Religious Society of Friends and its stamp on Nantucket's governance and economic development, B.T. (Before Tourism).
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A Nantucket Enclave
by Charles Lovelace
A history of Monomoy Heights from 1852-2005 charting its change from sheep Common to cottage colony to gold coast.
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The History of Nantucket
by Obed Macy. Thanks to Marshall Macy, a descendant, the following histories and genealogies are available again.
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Macy Genealogy
compiled by Silvanus J. Macy, covers the genealogy of the Macy family from 1635 to 1868.
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Nantucket Scrapbasket
by William F. Macy, is a collection of characteristic stories and sayings of the people of the town and island of Nantucket.
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The Story of Old Nantucket
by William F. Macy, is a "brief history of the island and its people from its discovery down to the present day (1928)".
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The Civil War: The Nantucket Experience
by Richard Miller & Robert Mooney presents Nantucket's role in the civil war.
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Maria Mitchell: A Life in Journals and Letters
edited by Henry Albers. The twenty-first century reader is privileged to delve into the public activities and private reflections of this remarkable Nantucketer.
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More Tales of Nantucket
by Robert Mooney
A dozen stories about the island, its life and people, includes both dramatic events and tales of everyday life.
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Nantucket Only Yesterday
by Robert Mooney, our veteran Nantucket historian, covers the influential events and people of Nantucket during the last century.
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Tales of Nantucket
by Robert F. Mooney. The chronicles and characters of America's favorite Island.
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Maritime Nantucket: A Pictorial History
by Paul C. Morris. The first book to come along about Nantucket and boats, watermen and the waterfront that isn't primarily about whaling. Hundreds of wonderful photographs from the author's collection.
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Nantucket Argument Settlers
in its tenth edition, chronicles island events year by year beginning in 1602 with Bartholomew Gosnold's discovery right up to the end of 1993.
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Abram's Eyes
by noted local historian Nathaniel Philbrick, explores the importance of Native Americans to Nantucket's history.
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Away Off Shore
by Nathaniel Philbrick, presents Nantucket history from its Native American origins to the advent of tourism. With its scrupulous research and readable style, it is destined to become a classic.
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In the Heart of the Sea
by Nathaniel Philbrick. The heartstopping tale of the wreck of the whaleship Essex and its aftermath has been an international bestseller. Autographed copies are available.
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Mayflower
by our beloved Nathaniel Philbrick is on our shelves. It is a story of courage, community and war. A limited number of autographed copies are available.
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Lifesaving Nantucket
by Edouard A. Stackpole, is an absorbing story of our lighthouses, lifesaving boats, lightshipsi and many dramatic rescues.
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Nantucket Doorways, Thresholds to the Past
by Edouard A. Stackpole and Melvin B. Summerfield. An architectural and historical guide to Nantucket's oldest houses.
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The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town, including Genealogies of the First Settlers
by Alexander Starbuck, includes genealogies of the first settlers (1924).
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Nantucket: The Faraway Island
by William O. Stevens. This classic history of Nantucket, first published in 1936, has been reprinted complete with the author's lovely line drawings.
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A Walk Down Main Street, Houses and their Histories
by Betsy Tyler and published by the Nantucket Preservation Trustis a handy guide which relates the tales, supported by solid research, of every house on residential Main Street. Historic and contemporary photographs accompany each double-page spread.
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Tom Never’s Ghost
by Jack Warner
is a lively historical narrative with special emphasis on its little known Southeast Quarter.
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