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"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.
Publish Date
September 27, 2000
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Pages
392
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
2014, University of North Carolina Press
in English
1469616866 9781469616865
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
September 27, 2000, The University of North Carolina Press
Paperback
in English
0807848700 9780807848708
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
September 27, 2000, The University of North Carolina Press
Hardcover
in English
0807825611 9780807825617
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