An edition of Captain Ahab Had a Wife (2000)

Captain Ahab Had a Wife

New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)

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An edition of Captain Ahab Had a Wife (2000)

Captain Ahab Had a Wife

New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)

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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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The University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Pages
392

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Subjects
Social life and customs, Whaling, Social conditions, History, Women, Massachusetts, social life and customs, Massachusetts, history, Women, united states, history, Nantucket island (mass.), history, New bedford (mass.), Whalers' spouses

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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
2014, University of North Carolina Press
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
September 27, 2000, The University of North Carolina Press
Hardcover in English
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Cover of: Captain Ahab Had a Wife
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
September 27, 2000, The University of North Carolina Press
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First Sentence

"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."

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99-088026 [SH]

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Hardcover
Number of pages
392
Dimensions
9.6 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.8 pounds

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OL9357157M
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captainahabhadwi00lisa
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0807825611
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9780807825617
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143924
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