Lisa Norling

2 books

Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 by Lisa Norling

Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870

Lisa Norling

392 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 by Lisa Norling, Margaret S. Creighton

Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920

Lisa Norling, Margaret S. Creighton

304 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction gender history sociology informative inspiring medium-paced