An enthusiastic sailor and dedicated historian, Nathaniel Philbrick is a recipient of the National Book Award for his compelling work of maritime history In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. His latest work, Mayflower, was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History. Philbrick's non-fiction narratives portray courageous figures through dramatic and vivid accounts of their seafaring legends.

Titles
  •  Mayflower
  •  Sea of Glory
  •  In the Heart of the Sea
  •  Revenge of the Whale

Additional Awards and Honors
  •  Revenge of the Whale, a children's book based on
     In the Heart of the Sea, 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.

For complete information about the author
and his works, please visit
Nathaniel Philbrick's website.

Reviews

A tumultuous voyage of discovery
REVIEW BY JAMES NEAL WEBB
Armchair explorers will be delighted to hear that Nathaniel Philbrick, the author of the National Book Award-winning In The Heart of the Sea, is back with [Sea of Glory] an adventure that is even more astonishing than his previous book. (Read more at BookPage...)