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Nathaniel Philbrick

Nantucket’s English settlers, who first disembarked on the island in 1659, had been mindful of the sea’s dangers. They had hoped to earn their livelihoods not as fishermen but as farmers and shepherds on this grassy isle dotted with ponds, where no wolves preyed.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in ‘Moby-Dick,’ ‘away off shore.’

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter – much of it an exact copy of one he’d sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold’s passion was genuine.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony’s founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds as solid and respected citizens.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren’t on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

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Nathaniel Philbrick

I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I’m in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There’s a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for ‘Moby-Dick’: ‘Miriam Coffin’ by Joseph Hart.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

We’ve got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.

– Nathaniel Philbrick

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