The Enduring Power of Moby-Dick with Nathaniel Philbrick

Symposium: Melville on Nantucket at the Quaker Meeting House, August 14, 2019. A presentation of the Nantucket Historical Association.

Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Why Read Moby-Dick?, explores the timeless relevance of Herman Melville’s masterpiece. In addition to dipping into the novel itself, Philbrick will talk about the circumstances of the book’s creation and the subsequent course of Melville’s literary career.

Nathaniel Philbrick is the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award and the basis of a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard; Mayflower, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History; and, most recently, In the Hurricane’s Eye, the third in a trilogy about the American Revolution and a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.  He has lived on Nantucket since 1986 and is a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association.

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