The Nantucket Reader

The Nantucket Reader edited by Susan Beegel

Hardcover. Released May 14, 2009

"The 392-page book contains 50 selections by 43 authors, historic and contemporary, serious and humorous. It is orchestrated into 11 categories from an overture to a finale with references in between spanning whaling days, Nantucket women, calamities and shipwrecks. Voices include authors from Herman Melville to Paul Theroux, Crévecoeur to Emerson and Thoreau, Robert Mooney and Nancy Thayer, Russell Baker, David Halberstam, Tom Congdon and Nathaniel Philbrick, three of the Benchleys and many others." Read more here. 

A must-own volume for every Nantucket library.