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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 Hardcover - 2000
by Norling, Lisa
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- Title Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
- Author Norling, Lisa
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill & London
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0807825611I3N10
- ISBN 9780807825617 / 0807825611
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.12 x 1 in (23.50 x 15.54 x 2.54 cm)
- 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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In his tongue-in-cheek immortalization of Nantucket and its people in Moby-Dick, Melville linked the two elements of the island's society that rendered it so distinctive: its dominance by the Quaker faith and its dominance of the American whaling industry.