Roosevelt Naval History Prize and the Albion-Monroe Award from the National Maritime Historical Society. 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.
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.
He is presently at work on a book about the Battle of Little Big Horn. He was offered the opportunity to start the Egan Maritime Institute in 1995, and in 2000 he published In the Heart of the Sea, followed by Sea of Glory, in 2003, and Mayflower. 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. Philbrick was Brown’s first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978 that year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, RI today he and his wife Melissa sail their Beetle Cat Clio and their Tiffany Jane 34 Marie-J in the waters surrounding Nantucket Island.Īfter grad 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. "A compelling saga of desperation and survival." - School Library Journal "Horrifyingly engrossing." - Kirkus Reviews Based on his New York Times best-seller In the Heart of the Sea, Nathaniel Philbrick recreates the amazing events of the ill-fated Essex through the sailors own first-hand accounts, photos, maps, and artwork, and tells the tale of one of the great true-life adventure stories. Of the twenty-one castaways, only eight survived, including young Thomas. Three months later, two of the boats were rescued 4,500 miles away, off the coast of South America. Within minutes, the twenty-one-man crew, including the fourteen-year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, found themselves stranded in three leaky boats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with barely any supplies and little hope. On November 20, 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. The New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning In the Heart of the Sea, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard, adapted by the author for young readers.
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