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If you have read Herman Melville's Moby Dick, you're acutely aware that 19th-century Nantucket whaling culture majorly inspired this tale of punishing seas and relentless harpooning made it a perilous livelihood. Nowhere in the plot line are scenes of lounging on the beach, boat regattas, or hitting trendy boutiques and island-to-table restaurants.

But look beyond the azure waters, remarkably similar to the Caribbean or the South Pacific, that greet you upon approaching Nantucket's shoreline just

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Years after Nantucket’s whaling industry virtually decimated the Atlantic whale population and became fabulously wealthy in the process, Ahab and the White Whale are gone, but the wealth and charm of the island remain.

This small island (9 x 12 miles) well off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has lost none of its magic.

Late fall Nantucket is a perfect time to visit this storied island, far from summer's "madding crowds," and very much how she really is without the exc