I sort of vowed to myself that I would discuss one book per day on this blog. It's hard to limit myself to that, but since I make up the rules, I get to break them. So... the topic for today is historical writing, and instead of one book I'll talk about one author: Nathaniel Philbrick. I've read two of his book in the past year, Mayflower and In the Heart of the Sea. Mayflower is about, well, the people who came over on the Mayflower and what happened after they got here. In the Heart of the Sea is the true story that inspired the Moby Dick tale.
Philbrick is a great writer as well as a great historian, and both books are gripping.
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