Herman Melville / From "Nantucket," Chapter 14 of Moby-Dick; or, The whale
John Greenleaf Whittier / "The Exiles"
Paul Theroux / "Dead reckoning to Nantucket"
Obed Macy / From Chapter 3 of The History of Nantucket
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur / From "Description of the island of Nantucket," Letter IV of Letters from an American farmer
Joseph C. Hart / From Chapter 4 of Miriam Coffin, of The Whale-Fishermen
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Form Emerson's Journal, May 1847
Henry David Thoreau / From Thoreau's Journal, December 1854
Philip Caputo / "No space to waste"
Russell Baker / "Nantucket: sufficient unto itself"
Edmund Burke / From the speech "On conciliation with the colonies
Thomas Jefferson / From "Observations on the Whale-Fishery
Owen Chase / From Chapter 2 of Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex
Jeremiah N. Reynolds / From "Mocha Dick; or the White Whale of the Pacific, a leaf from a manuscript journal"
Herman Melville / From "The quarterdeck," Chapter 36 of Moby-Dick; or the Whale
Robert Lowell / "The Quaker graveyard in Nantucket"
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur / From "Peculiar customs at Nantucket," Letter VIII of Letters from an American farmer
Lucretia Coffin Mott / From "Discourse on Women"
Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Ann McClintock, Martha Coffin Wright, Jane Hunt / "The Declaration of Sentiments"
Eliza Spencer Brock / From "Journal Aboard the Whaleship Lexington"
Martha Ford / "Nantucket girl's song"
Maria Mitchell / Selections from her diaries and notebooks
Anonymous / From "Schooner industry a [expedi]tion on a whaling cruse a song composed on board of her"
William Lloyd Garrison / From Preface to Narrative of the live of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Frederick Douglass / From Chapter 1 of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Stephen S. Foster / From The brotherhood of thieves, or a true picture of the American church and clergy: a letter to Nathaniel Barney, of Nantucket
Edward J. Pompey and 104 other black citizens of Nantucket / Petition to the Massachusetts State House and Massachusetts House Bill No. 45, 1845
William Lay and Cyrus M. Hussey / Chapter 1 of A narrative of the mutiny on board the ship Globe of Nantucket
Nathaniel Philbrick / From "Games of chance", Chapter 11 of In the heart of the sea
Edgar Allan Poe / From Chapters 20 through 22 of The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Peter Benchley / From Chapter 1 of Jaws
Jane Langton / From Chapter 1 of Dark Nantucket noon
Robert Benchley / "Why am I pale" and "Abandon ship"
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey / From Chapters 11 and 12 of Cheaper by the dozen
Nathaniel Benchley / Chapter 2 of Sweet anarchy
Russell Baker / "The taint of quaint" and "Quaintness"
Tom Congdon / "Mrs. Coffin's consolation" and "While you were away"
John Cheever / "The seaside houses"
Nancy Thayer / From Chapter 5 of Spirit Lost
Sena Jeter Naslund / "The leg", Chapter 115 of Ahab's wife; or, The star-gazer
Elin Helderbrand / From "The eight weeks of August," Chapter 7 of The beach club
Frank Conroy / "How about manners?" from Time and tide: a walk through Nantucket
David Halberstam / "Nantucket on my mine"
Robert F. Mooney / From "The wreck of the British Queen"
Edouard Stackpole / "The wreck of the Witherspoon," Chapter 14 of Life saving Nantucket
Ron Winslow / "The grounding," Chapter 1 of Hard aground: The story of the Argo Merchant oil spill
Herman Melville / "The chase
-third day," Chapter 135 of Moby-Dick; or, The whale
