Author: Margaret Holden Eaton
Publisher: McNally & Loftin Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife
Author: Margaret Holden Eaton
Publisher: McNally & Loftin Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher: McNally & Loftin Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife
Author: Margaret Holden Eaton
Publisher: McNally & Loftin Pub
ISBN: 9780874610338
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: McNally & Loftin Pub
ISBN: 9780874610338
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Captain's Wife
Author: Douglas Kelley
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 9780452283558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Mary Patten, the wife of a clipper ship navigator, finds herself in the world's most dangerous ocean waters off Cape Horn and in command of the ship's mutinous crew when her husband falls ill.
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 9780452283558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Mary Patten, the wife of a clipper ship navigator, finds herself in the world's most dangerous ocean waters off Cape Horn and in command of the ship's mutinous crew when her husband falls ill.
The Sea Captain's Wife
Author: Martha Elizabeth Hodes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052664
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"What a terrific book! I could hardly put it down... A story of triumph over adversity."--James McPherson. Award-winning historian Hodes presents the true, extraordinary story of Eunice Connolly, a woman whose misfortune and defiance make up the grand themes of American history--opportunity and racism, war and freedom.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393052664
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
"What a terrific book! I could hardly put it down... A story of triumph over adversity."--James McPherson. Award-winning historian Hodes presents the true, extraordinary story of Eunice Connolly, a woman whose misfortune and defiance make up the grand themes of American history--opportunity and racism, war and freedom.
Hen Frigates
Author: Joan Druett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684854341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A hen frigate is any boat with the captain's wife on board. This is their story of life on the high seas.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684854341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A hen frigate is any boat with the captain's wife on board. This is their story of life on the high seas.
Before the Wind
Author: Charles Tyng
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0140291911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Charles Tyng's quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times at the begining of the nineteenth century. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor. Before the Wind has been hailed as a superb contribution to seafaring literature, alongside such books as Two Years Before the Mast and the novels of Patrick O'Brian. Both Tyng's life and the way he recounts his years at sea are full of wonder: He survives shipwrecks, squalls, and pirates. He makes and loses fortunes in tea, sugar, and cotton. He meets Lord Byron as well as the British princess (later queen) Victoria. Sailors, armchair travelers, history buffs, and lovers of pulse-quickening maritime stories will find this book as seductive as the siren song of the sea.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0140291911
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Charles Tyng's quarter century under sail took him around the world half a dozen times at the begining of the nineteenth century. Fortunately, he proved to be as natural a storyteller as he was a sailor. Before the Wind has been hailed as a superb contribution to seafaring literature, alongside such books as Two Years Before the Mast and the novels of Patrick O'Brian. Both Tyng's life and the way he recounts his years at sea are full of wonder: He survives shipwrecks, squalls, and pirates. He makes and loses fortunes in tea, sugar, and cotton. He meets Lord Byron as well as the British princess (later queen) Victoria. Sailors, armchair travelers, history buffs, and lovers of pulse-quickening maritime stories will find this book as seductive as the siren song of the sea.
Captain Ahab Had a Wife
Author: Lisa Norling
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories--to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore. Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories--to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore. Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.
The Captain's Best Mate
Author: Mary Chipman Lawrence
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
Petticoat Whalers
Author: Joan Druett
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651598
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651598
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.
One Whaling Family
Author: Harold Williams
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Adventures of the Williams family are told first hand from manuscripts. A stirring adventure - the account of a great whaling captain who took his family to sea.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Offshore whaling
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Adventures of the Williams family are told first hand from manuscripts. A stirring adventure - the account of a great whaling captain who took his family to sea.