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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
Lisa Norling
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| #1568656 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 2000-10-16 | 2000-10-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.98 x6.13l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 392 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting but not the best|By Jude Silveira|A fascinating, if clunky, look at the role of women in the whaling trade. I'd recommend Druett's Petticoat Whalers|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Someone had to take care of business while Ahap spent years at sea.|By Becket|Bought for research purposes and am not||[Norling] has made full use of the vast archive of women's papers that, willy nilly, were collected along with those of their men, as America began preserving the memory of one of its greatest early industries. ("Times Literary Supplement
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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 Ho...
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