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

by Lisa Norling

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807848700
• ISBN13: 9780807848708
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"