# Nathanial Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick. Recorded on 2001-09-08. Researchers. Teachers. Nathaniel Philbrick, whose book "In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" won the 2000 National Book Foundation Award for nonfiction, is a resident of Nantucket Island, Mass. A leading authority on the history of Nantucket, Philbrick serves as the director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Society. His other books include "Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890" and "Abram's Eyes: The Native American Legacy of Nantucket Island."

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2001
- By: National Book Festival (u.s.)
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692039/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
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