Away off shore Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890
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...
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New York, Nantucket, Mass.
Published in association with Mill Hill Press
2011
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVI, 325 S. maps 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0143120123 0-14-312012-3 9780143120124 978-0-14-312012-4 |