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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, All mortal greatness is but disease.

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Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick
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Born: June 11, 1956 (age 68)
Bio: Nathaniel Philbrick is an American author and a member of the Philbrick literary family. He won the year 2000 National Book Award for his maritime history, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.
Known for:
  1. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (2013)
  2. Why Read Moby-Dick? (2011)

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