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 sixth of all whaling vessels carried the captains' wives. Invariably the only woman aboard a very cramped ship, they endured harsh conditions to provide companionship for their husbands, and sometimes even exerted a strong unofficial moral influence on a rowdy crew. Joan Druett ...
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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 sixth of all whaling vessels carried the captains' wives. Invariably the only woman aboard a very cramped ship, they endured harsh conditions to provide companionship for their husbands, and sometimes even exerted a strong unofficial moral influence on a rowdy crew. Joan Druett provides captivating portraits of many of these wives and the difficult circumstances they endured. Petticoat Whalers, first published in New Zealand in 1991, has been out of print since 1995. The Kendall Whaling Museum's L. Byrne Waterman Award citation states: "It is not insignificant that Petticoat Whalers is already an indispensable classic, and [Druett's] other books and articles have earned the status of Basic Necessities on any well-stocked shelf of maritime narratives and reference works."
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Near Fine. 1584651598. Large paperback, this copy has one line of yellow hi-liting on page 15 but is in excellent condition otherwise with no other remarkable flaws, "an informed and accessible account of little-known stories of wives of whaling captains who accompanied their husbands on long and arduous journeys, " includes a selected bibliography; 219 pages.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Paintings by Ron Druett. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to. vi, 213pp, 8pp colour plates, b/w ills, appendix, selected bibliography, index, illustrated end-papers: Northern Whale Fishery. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book covers the whaling ships that plied the Pacific, Atlantic and Antarctic oceans in the 19th century and the men and women who worked and lived on them. It tells of the experiences of the women on board the winddjammer whalers and in the ports of 19th century New Zealand, Hawaii, Australia, Chile and Peru, as well as on a host of exotic islands.
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