So went a popular toast when Nantucket, Massachusetts ... Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, the story of a doomed whaling voyage that ends when the ship is rammed and sunk by a massive white sperm ...

More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in Moby-Dick, “away off shore.” But what makes Nantucket truly different is its ...

In 1848, 18-year-old Rebecca Ann Johnson sailed out of Nantucket, Massachusetts as part ... reworking of Herman Melville’s epic Moby-Dick; one of a number of 19th-century British and American ...