Nathaniel Philbrick

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Nathaniel Philbrick (b. 1956) is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.

Philbrick earned his bachelor's degree at Brown University, and his master's degree in American literature at Duke University. He moved to Nantucket in 1986.

He is a leading authority on the history of whaling and is the director of the Egan Institute of Maritime Studies and is a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. He lives on Nantucket and is a former intercollegiate All-American sailor and North American Sunfish champion.

Philbrick has written extensively about sailing. His works include The Passionate Sailor and Second Wind: A Sailfish Sailor's Odyssey. He is also the editor of Yaahting, A Parody.

In May 2006, Philbrick published a new history of the founding of the Plymouth colony in the United States, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War.

Philbrick has also written articles on sailing and American maritime history for Vanity Fair, the New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe.

In 2002, he was named the Nathaniel Bowditch Maritime Scholar of the Year by the American Merchant Marine Museum.

Nathaniel is the most prominent member of the Philbrick literary family.

[edit] Books by Nathaniel Philbrick

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838–1842 New York: Viking, 2003. ISBN 0-641-67918-1
American Sea Writing: A Literary Anthology. Peter Neill and Nathaniel Philbrick, eds. New York: Library of America, 2000. ISBN 1-883011-83-3
Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890. Nantucket, MA: Mill Hill Press, 1996. ISBN 0-9638910-0-6
Abram's Eyes: The Native American Legacy of Nantucket Island. Nantucket, MA: Mill Hill Press, 1998. ISBN 0-9638910-8-1
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. New York: Penguin, 2001. ISBN 0-14-100182-8
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts. Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick, eds. New York: Penguin, 2004. ISBN 0-14-043796-7
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. New York: Viking Penguin, 2006. ISBN 0-670-03760-5
Nantucket: The Quiet Season. By Cary Hazlegrove and Nathaniel Philbrick. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. ISBN 0-8118-4518-4
The Passionate Sailor. Sylmar, CA: NTC Publishing Group, 1986. ISBN 0-8092-5018-7
The Private Journal of William Reynolds. Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick, eds. New York: Penguin Group, 2004. ISBN 0-14-303905-9
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex. New York: Penguin, 2004. ISBN 0-14-240068-8 (Young reader's version of In the Heart of the Sea.)
Second Wind: A Sunfish Sailor's Odyssey. Yarmouthport, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1998. ISBN 0-940160-77-3