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
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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 sourc...

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