E-book: $19.99
Primary Format: Paper | |
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ISBN: | 9780874513660 |
Published: | 04/01/1986 |
Pages: | 340 |
Size: | 6 x 9 in. |
Subject(s): | History Women's Studies |
The Captain’s Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856–1860
Mary Chipman Lawrence
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"I doubt if any woman ever wrote a diary of her voyage in better style or more interestingly."
Bradford Swan, Providence Journal
Overview
The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
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Mary Chipman Lawrence wasn’t the first wife who ever accompanied her husband on a whaling voyage, nor was she the last, but I doubt if any woman ever wrote a diary of her voyage in better style or more interestingly.
—Bradford Swan, Providence Journal