I stayed up till 7 a.m. to finish my first book this summer. "Mayflower," by Nathaniel Philbrick. A detailed and moving account of the Mayflower journey, from the time they were in England and Holland to the moment to the sighted land to the King Phillips War that destroyed so much culture and killed so many. It is meticulously researched, with really amazing firsthand accounts. It really shows how much the English destroyed the Native Americans' way of life and how they viewed their native neighbors. Put it on your reading list. It's worth a read.
I looked up what "In the Heart of the Sea," which won Philbrick a National Book Award, and it's apparently about the whaleship Essex, a disaster of a voyage that saw its crewmembers resorting to cannibalism to survive.
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