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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
Captain Ahab Had a Wife New England Women and the Whalefishery 17201870 - Gender and American Culture
Author: Lisa Norling
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 minu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807825617
ISBN-10: 0807825611
Publication Date: 10/16/2000
Pages: 372
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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