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Nantucket to the World:
How a New England Island Inspired America's
First
Ocean-Going Voyage of Discovery
by
Nathaniel Philbrick
Tuesday, May 3, 2005, at 7:30 p.m.
Antiquarian Hall
185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Drawing on his two latest books, In the Heart of the Sea and Sea
of
Glory,
Nathaniel Philbrick tells the story of how the whale men of Nantucket
inspired the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842--the voyage that would
bring back the specimens and artifacts that would become the basis of the
Smithsonian Institution's collections.
Nathaniel Philbrick is author of Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of
Discovery -- The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, winner of the
2003
Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize. His previous
book, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex,
won
the 2000 National Book Award for nonfiction and spent forty weeks on the
New York Times bestseller list. Revenge of the Whale, an account of the
Essex disaster for young readers, was named a 2003 Boston Globe-Horn Book
honor book. Philbrick.s writing has also appeared in Vanity Fair, the New
York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and
Boston Globe.
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This lecture is open to the public free of charge.
Directions to Antiquarian Hall
Please consult the 2005 schedule
for a
complete list of this year's public lectures.
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