NEW NANTUCKET SPIRIT: THE ART AND LIFE OF ELIZABETH REBECCA COFFIN By Margaret Moore Booker 2001 $39.95 Cloth This elegantly written and lavishly illustrated volume brings to life an extraordinary Nantucket artist whose story and work is richly deserving of wider recognition. While making her mark in the competitive New York art world, Elizabeth R. Coffin (1850-1930) preserved in her canvases the people, landscapes, and rural lifestyles that were fading from the island. (240 pp / 29 photos / 29 color illus)

ABRAM'S EYES: THE NATIVE AMERICAN LEGACY OF NANTUCKET ISLAND By Nathaniel Philbrick 1998 $35.00 Cloth Abram's Eyes tells the little-known story of Nantucket's Native American past. Heavily illustrated, including a detailed map of the island's Indian place-names, this book brings a fresh and exciting perspective to Nantucket's history. (308 pp/74 ill)

THE ADMIRAL'S ACADEMY: NANTUCKET ISLAND'S HISTORIC COFFIN SCHOOL By Margaret Moore Booker 1998 $14.95 Paper The Admiral's Academy traces the history of Nantucket's Coffin School from its founding in 1827 by a British admiral, Sir Isaac Coffin, through its transformation into a lively center for manual training and home economics in the early twentieth century. Illustrated with paintings and photographs, this book is for Nantucket history buffs and those with an interest in American education. (88 pp/43 ill)

AWAY OFF SHORE: NANTUCKET ISLAND AND ITS PEOPLE, 1602-1890 By Nathaniel Philbrick 1994 $19.95 paper "For everyone who loves Nantucket this is the indispensable book." --Russell Baker This local best-seller focuses on the real people great and obscure, famous and infamous behind the island at the center of a whaling empire. (276 pp/18 ill)

NANTUCKET LIGHTS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE ISLAND'S LEGENDARY Beacons By Karen T. Butler 1997 $45.00 cloth Lavishly illustrated, Nantucket Lights tells the story of the island's lighthouses and lightships and the men and women who faithfully kept them. Dazzling images and a carefully researched text illuminate an important aspect of Nantucket's maritime past. (151 pp/148 ill)

QUAKER NANTUCKET By Robert Leach and Peter Gow 1997 $21.95 paper Based on original research in records long thought lost, Quaker Nantucket explores the spectacular growth of Quakerism on the island and its equally astonishing decline amidst the collapse of the whaling industry a century later. (224 pp/15 ill)

EARLY NANTUCKET AND ITS WHALE HOUSES By Henry C. Forman Second edition, 1991 $29.95 cloth "Anyone with a feeling for Americana will appreciate the Williamsburg-by-the-sea quality of the book." --New York Times Book Review An in-depth study of the distinctive architecture of the island's evolving whaling community. (290 pp/90 photos/115 ill.)

PORTRAIT OF NANTUCKET, 1659-1890 THE PAINTINGS OF RODNEY CHARMAN By Robert Mooney 1989 $19.95 paper / $29.95 cloth Based on meticulous research, the paintings of noted marine artist Rodney Charman bring to life Nantucket's colorful history. (46 pp/20 paintings)

MIRIAM COFFIN or THE WHALE-FISHERMAN By Joseph C. Hart with introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick 1995 $19.95 cloth A best-seller when first published in 1834 and a source for Melville's Moby-Dick, Joseph C. Hart's novel Miriam Coffin, or The Whale-Fishermen, is a Nantucket classic. Based on the life of the Tory "she-merchant" Kezia Coffin, this book presents a detailed picture of the island when it was the whaling capital of the world. (385 pp)

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