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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 Paperback / softback - 2000
by Lisa Norling
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- Title Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
- Author Lisa Norling
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-10-16
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780807848708
- ISBN 9780807848708 / 0807848700
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.22 x 0.92 in (23.52 x 15.80 x 2.34 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: New England
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Whaling - Massachusetts - New Bedford -, Women - Massachusetts - New Bedford - Social
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99088026
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.372
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From the jacket flap
A social history that uncovers the lives of maritime women in New England villages whose men were whalers during the 18th and 19th centuries. Norling draws from a variety of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories to uncover the women's often poignant and painful stories.
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Citations
- Choice, 02/01/2001, Page 1140