Captain Ahab Had a Wife

Author: Lisa Norling
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469616866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Book Description
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. Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.

Captain Ahab Had a Wife

Author: Lisa Norling
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807848708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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

Ahab's Wife

Author: Sena Jeter Naslund
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061983691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1280

Book Description
From the opening line—"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"—you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and compellingly readable saga, spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. At once a family drama, a romantic adventure, and a portrait of a real and loving marriage, Ahab's Wife gives new perspective on the American experience. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Captain Ahab Had a Wife

Author: Lisa Norling
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Moby Dick

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1616411635
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
In Herman Melville's classic tale of revenge, Ishmael tells his story of becoming a whaler on the Pequod. When Ishmael and his unexpected friend Queequeg join Captain Ahab's hunt for Moby Dick, the voyage of a lifetime turns into tragedy. The adventures of sailing the seas on the hunt for the great white whale is retold in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.

Hannah Rose

Author: Louise M. Gouge
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 9781589190405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Historical novel detailing the continuing adventures of Hannah Rose, widow of the infamous Captain Ahab of "Moby Dick" fame. Second book of the series.

Petticoat Whalers

Author: Joan Druett
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651598
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
First US Edition -- The first comprehensive book on whaling wives at sea written for a general audience.

The Captain's Wife

Author: Douglas Kelley
Publisher: Plume
ISBN: 9780452283558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Mary Patten, the wife of a clipper ship navigator, finds herself in the world's most dangerous ocean waters off Cape Horn and in command of the ship's mutinous crew when her husband falls ill.

Captain Ahab Had a Wife

Author: Lisa A. Norling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whalers' spouses
Languages : en
Pages : 646

Book Description

Ahab's Daughter

Author: Ron Vitale
Publisher: Ron Vitale
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301

Book Description
A sea of danger and magic. A family that can’t stay clear of the water… Morgan refuses to let her twin brother suffer the same fate as their whale-obsessed father Captain Ahab. Despite her efforts to keep Nathan on dry land, her brother can’t resist the siren song of the sea and rumors of untold treasures on the Island of Nightmares… Before Nathan can drop anchor and find his bounty, his crew encounters an ominous force. He’s convinced the creature is somehow connected to his father’s past and that one of his crew has been bitten. Could Nathan actually be on the run from a werewhale? As the dark island fast approaches, Nathan’s adventure could end in a watery grave. It’s up to Morgan and her father’s old crewmate Ishmael to save Nathan’s life. But can she possibly change the mind of a man with the same stubborn streak as Captain Ahab? Ahab’s Daughter is the rollicking first novel in The Werewhale Saga, a series of fantasy adventures. If you like tenacious heroines, supernatural twists, and high seas suspense, then you’ll love Ron Vitale’s entertaining follow-up to Herman Melville’s literary classic.