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Nantucket (/ ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t /) is an island about 30 miles (48 km) south from Cape Cod. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government in the state of Massachusetts. Nantucket is the southeasternmost town in both Massachusetts and the New ...
July 1838. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written in 1838, is the only complete novel by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaler called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism ...
Period. 1980s–present. Genre. Science fiction, fantasy, alternate history. Website. www .smstirling .com. Stephen Michael Stirling (born September 30, 1953) is a Canadian-American [1] science fiction and fantasy author who was born in France. Stirling is well known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and his later time travel ...
The Emberverse series. The Nantucket series (also known as the Nantucket trilogy or the Islander trilogy [1]) is a set of alternate history novels written by S. M. Stirling. [2] [3] The novels focus on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts which was transported back in time to 1250 BC due to something called "The Event".
Hails from the fictional island of Rokovoko in the South Seas, inhabited by a cannibal tribe, and is the son of the chief of his tribe. He is an extremely skillful harpooneer and a strong swimmer. He and Ishmael bond early in the novel, when they share a bed before leaving for Nantucket. He is described as existing in a state between 'civilized ...
Island in the Sea of Time. Island in the Sea of Time ( ISOT) is the first of the three alternate history novels of the Nantucket series by S. M. Stirling. [1] [2] It was released in the United States and Canada on February 1, 1998 and in the United Kingdom precisely a month later.
Tristram Coffin (or Coffyn) [fn 1] (c. 1609 – 2 October 1681) was an immigrant to Massachusetts from England . In 1659 he led a group of investors that bought Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew for thirty pounds and two beaver hats. [2] He became a prominent citizen of the settlement.
Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. Pequod and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the story, which, after the initial chapters, takes place almost entirely aboard the ship during a three-year whaling expedition in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific oceans.