” If you live on Nantucket, you can’t avoid its history, and ‘Moby Dick’ is the way most of us get into Nantucket’s history. “
” As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books. “
” As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history. “
” Instead of being a page-turner, ‘Moby-Dick’ is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century. “
” I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I’ve learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly. “
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