Defying convention, Mary Brewster of Stonington, Connecticut, accompanied her whaling captain husband on two voyages to the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first American woman to sail in the Western Arctic. New Zealand's Joan Druett has fully annotated this fascinating daily record of a woman's life in a man's world at sea, adding numerous quotes from other whaling women, lively introductory essays to give context to the journals, and a list of all of the known women who went whaling
Author: Brewster, Mary
Pages: 447
Book format: hardback
Product code: 60.42.650
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