Captain Ahab Had a Wife
New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
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Author
Publication
2000-09-27 - The University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Word Count
98,000 words, Guess
Page Count
392 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7972677M
- ISBN-139780807848708
- ISBN-100807848700
- OCLC Control Number42935798
- OCLC Control Numbercaptainahabhadwi0000norl
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99088026
- LibraryThing143924
- Goodreads7744
Classifications
- LCC99-088026 [SH]
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."--BOOK JACKET.
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