Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives At Sea, 1820-1920 by Joan Druett

Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives At Sea, 1820-1920

Joan Druett

200 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Joan Druett offers an informed and accessible account of little known stories of wives of whaling captains who accompanied their husbands on long and arduous journeys to bring whale oil and blubber to New England. Surprisingly, by 1850 roughly a s...

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