Книга: Nathaniel Philbrick «In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby Dick»
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When the whaleship Essex set sail from Nantucket in 819, the unthinkable happened. A mere speck in the vast Pacific ocean - and powerless against the forces of nature - Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale, and her twenty crewmen were forced to take to the open sea in three small boats. Ninety days later only a handful of survivors were rescued - and a terrifying story of desperation, cannibalism and courage as revealed... Издательство: "William Collins, Sons&Co" (2015)
ISBN: 978-0-00-812683-4 Купить за 990 руб на Озоне |
Nathaniel Philbrick
Nathaniel Philbrick (born 1956) is an American author and a winner of the National Book Award for his 2000 work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.[1][2] He is member of the Philbrick literary family.
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Life
Nathaniel Philbrick was born June 11, 1956 Boston, Massachusetts. He currently lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts.[3] He is married to Melissa Douthart Philbrick, the Executive Director of Remain Nantucket.[4]
Education
Philbrick graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School[5] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned his bachelor's degree in English at Brown University, and his master's degree in American literature at Duke University.[2][6]
Philbrick was Brown’s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978; that year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, Rhode Island.
Family
Philbrick is married to Melissa Douthart Philbrick, who is Executive Director of Remain Nantucket. They have two children Jennie and Ethan. He moved to Nantucket, Massachusetts in 1986, and is a leading authority on the history of the island.[1][6]
Career
After graduate school, Philbrick worked for four years at Sailing World magazine; was a freelancer for a number of years, during which time he wrote/edited several sailing books, including Yaahting: A Parody (1984), for which he was the editor-in-chief; during this time he was also the primary caregiver for his two children. After moving to Nantucket in 1986, he became interested in the history of the island and wrote Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People. He was offered the opportunity to start the Egan Maritime Institute in 1995.
In 2000 he published In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. This was followed by Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, in 2003. In 2006, Philbrick published a new history of the founding of the Plymouth colony in the United States, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War. The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn was published in May 2010. He is presently at work on a book about Boston during the early years of the Revolution.
Awards
Mayflower was a finalist for both the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in History and the Los Angeles Times Book Award and was winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction. In the Heart of the Sea won the National Book Award for nonfiction; Revenge of the Whale won a Boston Globe Horn Book Award; Sea of Glory won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize and the Albion-Monroe Award from the National Maritime Historical Society. Philbrick has also received the Byrne Waterman Award from the Kendall Whaling Museum, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for distinguished service from the USS Constitution Museum, the Nathaniel Bowditch Award from the American Merchant Marine Museum, the William Bradford Award from the Pilgrim Society, the Boston History Award from the Bostonian Society, and the New England Book Award from the New England Independent Booksellers Association.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b "Nathaniel Philbrick". National Book Festival author biography. US Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/author/Nathaniel%2B_Philbrick. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
- ^ a b Drew, Bernard. 100 Most Popular Nonfiction Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited, 2007. ISBN 1-59158-487-6
- ^ "Nathaniel Philbrick: About". Retrieved 2011-04-19.
- ^ remainnantucket.org
- ^ Behe, Regis (2007-04-25). "Behe, Regis. "Authors, Chef Highlight Drue Heinz Lecture Series." ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.'' April 25, 2007". Pittsburghlive.com. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_504403.html. Retrieved 2010-05-18.
- ^ a b "Backgrounder - Nathaniel Philbrick." Smithsonian Institution Libraries. No date.. Retrieved 2009-05-26.
References
- Kakutani, Michiko (June 3, 2010). "The Last Stand? Yes. The Last Word? Never". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/books/04book.html?_r=1.
- Barcott, Bruce (June 10, 2010). "Men on Horseback". review (New York Times Sunday Book Review). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/books/review/Barcott-t.html.
- Percelay, Bruce (May 25, 2010). "Beyond Nantucket with Nathaniel Philbrick". N Magazine. http://www.nantucketmagazine.net/NSide/?p=1426.
External links
- American writers
- American maritime historians
- Writers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Brown University alumni
- 1956 births
- Living people
- Duke University alumni
- National Book Award winners
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