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Author : Margaret Holden Eaton
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780874610338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife written by Margaret Holden Eaton and published by McNally & Loftin Pub. This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Douglas Kelley
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452283558
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (835 download)
Download or read book The Captain's Wife written by Douglas Kelley and published by Plume. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781448789993
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (899 download)
Download or read book The Sea Captain's Wife written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beth Powning
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307402568
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Sea Captain's Wife written by Beth Powning and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Azuba Galloway, daughter of a shipwright, sees ships leaving for foreign ports from her bustling town on the Bay of Fundy and dreams of seeing the world. When she marries Nathaniel Bradstock, a veteran sea captain, she believes she will sail at his side. But when she becomes pregnant she is forced to stay behind. Her father has built the couple a gabled house overlooking the bay, but the gift cannot shelter her from the loneliness of living without her husband. When Azuba becomes embroiled in scandal, Nathaniel is forced to take her and their daughter, Carrie, aboard his ship. They set sail for London with bitter hearts. Their voyage is ill-fated, beset with ferocious storms and unforeseen obstacles that test Azuba's compassion, courage and love. Alone in a male world, surrounded by the splendour and the terror of the open seas, she must face her fears and fight to keep her family together.
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 : Marele Day
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 9781741141214
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Mrs Cook written by Marele Day and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the great sweep of history, of winds, tides and seasons, there is a story of courage and survival that belongs not to a great sea captain, but to his wife...While James Cook circumnavigated the globe, travelling further than any man had before, Elizabeth Cook travelled with him in her thoughts, imagining the exotic, the sensual and the strange. There were months, sometimes years, with no word...But as James sailed into the blue, earning his place in history, Elizabeth Cook made discoveries of her own. Though she rarely left London, she was propelled on a journey into the far reaches of the human heart, a journey marked by James' departures and those of her six children, whom she lost one by one...This is a rich portrayal of the life of a woman whose passion and intellect matched that of her celebrated husband. It is a lyrical exploration of imagined interior worlds, shaped by historical fact. It is, above all, a celebration of love and endurance.
Author : Lisa Norling
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616866
Total Pages : 392 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 392 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 : Beth Powning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781101503898
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Sea Captain's Wife written by Beth Powning and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new wife living on the Bay of Fundy in the 1860s, Azuba craves a life beyond the tea and sewing circles. When her husband, Nathaniel, allows her to join him abroad, she faces tests that only a woman with a tenacious spirit and boundless fortitude could conquer.
Author : Kirsten Mckenzie
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848544448
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book The Captain's Wife written by Kirsten Mckenzie and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1762. Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when her marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces the damp salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail on the Isabella, away from the land of her childhood towards unseen places and an unknown future. But being the captain's wife is going to be harder than she thought. Her husband is still grieving for his first wife, and Mary can't ignore her feelings towards another man onboard. Through him, she has a taste of the kind of love she might have known, and even begins to think that escape is possible. With ruthless pirates patrolling British waters and ports full of outcasts with unspoken pasts, Mary learns quickly that loyalties are always shifting and people are rarely as they first seem. The Captain's Wife is a richly realised story of adventure about a strong young woman determined to survive her fate by a wonderful storyteller.
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 : Charles Tyng
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140291911
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Before the Wind written by Charles Tyng and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 289 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 : Minerva Sears
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781973101109
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Captain's Wife written by Minerva Sears and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 1852 diary of Minerva Sears as she accompanies her husband, Captain Joshua Sears, on a voyage from Boston to the Isle de France, then to Calcutta, and back to Boston aboard the ship Orissa. Minerva describes the rough conditions on board and her thoughts about them. Several of the crew members suffer various illnesses and injuries which the Captain treats with home remedies. Minerva cares for many of the animals on board, including her pet dog. On calm days, she writes of the lonesomeness and how she misses her friends back home. During wicked storms, she writes of her terror and anxiety. This diary provides an interesting look on board a 19th century trade ship through the eyes of a young woman with excellent writing abilities.
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 : Steve Mentz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317016602
Total Pages : 204 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 204 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 : Sally Berridge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472954203
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Epic Voyages of Maud Berridge written by Sally Berridge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maud Berridge (1845–1907) was the wife of a Master Mariner, and she travelled with him on at least five occasions (1869, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1886), sailing to Melbourne with emigrants and cargo. The first occasion was 1869 just after they were married, when Henry was Captain of the Walmer Castle, and they returned via New Zealand instead of travelling east and around Cape Horn. However, most of Henry and Maud's voyages were undertaken in the three-masted clipper Superb, sailing from Gravesend at the start of summer and leaving Melbourne for home at the end of the year (the southern summer, best for heading east with the trade winds and rounding Cape Horn). Record times taken from London to Melbourne under Captain Henry were 79 days (1878), 76 days (1881) and a final time of 74 days (1886). In 1880, Maud and Henry took their two sons (aged six and eight) with them. In 1883, they sailed on from Melbourne to Newcastle in New South Wales to take on a load of coal, then on through the Windward Isles to San Francisco (51 days). Here they stayed for two months exploring SF and surrounds, unloaded the coal and took on a load of wheat (in large bags) at Port Costa. They then sailed down the west coast of the Americas, around Cape Horn and on to Queenstown in County Cork (134 days). The whole voyage took 14 months. There are also some photographs of Henry, Maud and the crew taken in San Francisco, and a photo from the State Library of Victoria showing the Superb at dock in Melbourne. Maud wrote diaries of these voyages of which one in particular, that of the 1883 voyage, comprise some 50 000 words. The book will tell Maud's story through her own words and through a number of relevant contemporary documents and will paint a picture of the life of a captain's wife in the Victorian era as well as aspects of society in Britain, the US and Australia at the time. Her enthusiasm for new experiences shines through her writing.
Author : William Clark Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Captain's Wife written by William Clark Russell and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
