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Author : Margaret Holden Eaton
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife written by Margaret Holden Eaton and published by McNally & Loftin Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Holden Eaton
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife written by Margaret Holden Eaton and published by McNally & Loftin Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Tyng
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0140291911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Before the Wind written by Charles Tyng and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Lisa Norling
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616866
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Captain Ahab Had a Wife written by Lisa Norling and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Joan Druett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684854341
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Hen Frigates written by Joan Druett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hen frigate is any boat with the captain's wife on board. This is their story of life on the high seas.
Author : Martha Elizabeth Hodes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393052664
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)
Download or read book The Sea Captain's Wife written by Martha Elizabeth Hodes and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : Joan Druett
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651598
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Petticoat Whalers written by Joan Druett and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.
Author : Mary Chipman Lawrence
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611680638
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Captain's Best Mate written by Mary Chipman Lawrence and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000-10-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
Author : Harold Williams
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book One Whaling Family written by Harold Williams and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1964 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Connie Roop
Publisher : Aladdin
ISBN 13 : 9781416975731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Good-bye for Today written by Connie Roop and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura doesn't want to keep a journal, but her mother says she must. After all, writing about the day-to-day life aboard her father's ship, the Monticello, will preserve her memories of a most interesting and at times terrifying, experience. The Monticello is a whaling ship, and Laura's father has decided to bring Laura, her mother, and her little brother, William, along on this voyage, for as soon as they fill the ship's hold with whale oil in the Arctic they shall return to their home in New Bedford -- a home that Laura, who was born in the Sandwich Islands, has never seen. But the long trip to the Arctic is a perilous one indeed. There are terrible storms, increasing cold, the thrill (and pity) of the whale hunt, the loss of crew members, and most of all the threat of ice, which can surround a ship and squeeze it into splinters. Based on real journals from children who lived aboard nineteenth-century whaling ships, Peter and Connie Roop's story introduces young readers to one plucky girl and her family's unusual but fascinating lifestyle.
Author : Sena Jeter Naslund
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061983691
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Ahab's Wife written by Sena Jeter Naslund and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the opening line—"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"—you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and compellingly readable saga, spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. At once a family drama, a romantic adventure, and a portrait of a real and loving marriage, Ahab's Wife gives new perspective on the American experience. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Author : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486840530
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book A Diary from Dixie written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into Southern aristocracy, Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–86) married a rising star of the political scene who ultimately served as an aide to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. As a prominent hostess and popular guest in the highest circles of Confederate society, Chesnut possessed an insider's perspective on many of the Civil War's major events, which she recorded in vivid journal entries. Her diary recounts the social life that struggled to continue in the midst of war, the grim economic conditions that resulted from blockaded ports as well as how people's spirits rose and fell with each victory and defeat. Hailed by William Styron as "a great epic drama of our greatest national tragedy," Chesnut's annotated diary won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1982 and served as a primary source for Ken Burns's celebrated Civil War documentary. This edition of the compelling narrative features photos and engravings from the original publication.
Author : Max Hardberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964043374
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Freighter Captain written by Max Hardberger and published by . This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Sherman Lester
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Legendary King of San Miguel written by Elizabeth Sherman Lester and published by McNally & Loftin Publishers. This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Parry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307492125
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Trial by Ice written by Richard Parry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the dark years following the Civil War, America’s foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of President Grant, Captain Hall and his crew boarded the Polaris, a steam schooner carefully refitted for its rigorous journey, and began their quest to be the first men to reach the North Pole. Neither the ship nor its captain would ever return. What transpired was a tragic death and whispers of murder, as well as a horrifying ordeal through the heart of an Arctic winter, when men fought starvation, madness, and each other upon the ever-shifting ice. Trial by Ice is an incredible adventure that pits men against the natural elements and their own fragile human nature. In this powerful true story of death and survival, courage and intrigue aboard a doomed ship, Richard Parry chronicles one of the most astonishing, little known tragedies at sea in American history. “ABSORBING . . . Suspense builds as Parry describes the events leading up to Hall’s ‘murder,’ then climaxes in horrifying detail.” –Publishers Weekly “RIVETING.” –Library Journal
Author : Steve Mentz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317016602
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture written by Steve Mentz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the European-based empire and her rapidly expanding former colony ensured that the ocean became increasingly important to popular literary culture in both nations. This collection of ten essays by expert scholars in transatlantic British and American literatures interrogates the diverse meanings the ocean assumed for writers, readers, and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic during this period of global exploration and colonial consolidation. The book’s introduction offers three critical lenses through which to read nineteenth-century Anglophone maritime literature: "wet globalization," which returns the ocean to our discourses of the global; "salt aesthetics," which considers how the sea influences artistic culture and aesthetic theory; and "blue ecocriticism," which poses an oceanic challenge to the narrowly terrestrial nature of "green" ecological criticism. The essays employ all three of these lenses to demonstrate the importance of the ocean for the changing shapes of nineteenth-century Anglophone culture and literature. Examining texts from Moby-Dick to the coral flower-books of Victorian Australia, and from Wordsworth’s sea-poetry to the Arctic journals of Charles Francis Hall, this book shows how important and how varied in meaning the ocean was to nineteenth-century Anglophone readers. Scholars of nineteenth-century globalization, the history of aesthetics, and the ecological importance of the ocean will find important scholarship in this volume.
Author : Donna M. Bevans Ph.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728306124
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)
Download or read book The Captain’s House written by Donna M. Bevans Ph.D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Captain’s House is an intriguing story filled with suspense, mystery, and romance. Do you believe in ghosts? Rachel didn’t, and she wasn’t going to let the rumors of ghosts and a curse stop her from buying a lovely old sea captain’s house. A husband, who displayed a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality, she couldn’t trust and the captain of a fishing boat willing to help her weather a hurricane all add to the intrigue and romance. Voices in the night, footsteps overhead, and banging noises started to make Rachel think the rumors of a haunted house might be right, but it took meeting the ghosts face-to-face to make her a true believer. Four friendly ghosts who reside in the captain’s house; another ghost, not so friendly, who comes and goes at will; and yet another ghost who surprises Rachel all provide mystery and suspense.
