Captain Ahab Had a Wife
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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.
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Sign InSocial life and customsWhalingSocial conditionsHistoryWomenMassachusetts, social life and customsMassachusetts, historyWomen, united states, historyNantucket island (mass.), historyNew bedford (mass.)Whalers' spouses
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2000
Pages
392 pages
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University of North Carolina Press
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ENG
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