Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Passionate Sailor | 1987 | Buy |
| Away Off Shore | 1993 | Buy |
| Abram’s Eyes | 1998 | Buy |
| Second Wind | 1999 | Buy |
| In the Heart of the Sea | 2000 | Buy |
| Sea of Glory | 2001 | Buy |
| Revenge of the Whale | 2002 | Buy |
| Mayflower | 2006 | Buy |
| The Mayflower Papers | 2007 | Buy |
| The Mayflower and the Pilgrims’ New World | 2008 | Buy |
| The Last Stand | 2010 | Buy |
| Why Read Moby-Dick? | 2010 | Buy |
| Bunker Hill | 2013 | Buy |
| The First Thanksgiving | 2013 | Buy |
| Valiant Ambition | 2016 | Buy |
| Ben’s Revolution | 2017 | Buy |
| In the Hurricane’s Eye | 2018 | Buy |
| Travels with George | 2021 | Buy |
Nathaniel Philbrick has spent his career writing about the sea, early American history, and the people who shaped both. Based in Nantucket, he drew on the island’s whaling history for several of his early books, including Away Off Shore (1993) and his breakout work, In the Heart of the Sea (2000), which recounted the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a sperm whale in 1820.
Philbrick went on to write about the Pilgrims in Mayflower (2006), the Battle of Little Bighorn in The Last Stand (2010), and the American Revolution in a trilogy that includes Bunker Hill (2013), Valiant Ambition (2016), and In the Hurricane’s Eye (2018). His most recent book, Travels with George (2021), follows George Washington’s post-inauguration tour of the new nation. Across eighteen books, Philbrick has built a reputation for making American history accessible and gripping.