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A hen frigate is any boat with the captain's wife on board. This is their story of life on the high seas.
A Sea of Misadventures
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-30 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

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A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding
Seafaring Women
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Pages: 322
Authors: David Cordingly
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-12 - Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

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For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonis
The Hard Way Around
Language: en
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Authors: Geoffrey Wolff
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to
Petticoat Whalers
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Joan Druett
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.