Seafaring Women

by Linda Grant De Pauw

Book Overview

Discusses women at sea throughout history in both feminine and masculine roles, including those of pirate, warrior, whaler, trader, and the greatly expanding roles of recent times. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395324343
• ISBN13: 9780395324349
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A fresh view of women's participation in a major enterprise

This is a short, readable, heavily anecdotal account of women's history in sailing. It contains many amazing facts (e.g., The world's most successful pirate was a woman. The only teenager ever to captain a clipper ship around Cape Horn while pregnant was a woman.) The book gave me a different perspective on sailing and a different perspective on women's place in history. I wish the stories had been footnoted with sources, though. De Pauw explicitly cites sources in a handful of cases, but not in many others.

women pirates

I think women pirates are cool to read about because I didn't know a lot about them. The book was good because it had a lot of imformation on women in the pirate days.

Collection of true stories of female sailors and pirates.

This is a wonderful book of biographies of 19th century seafaring women. The women vary from female pirates, to merchant ship captains to the wives of captains who went to sea with their men. I have reread it several times and find it a delightful addition to nautical lore.