The Flensing Knife

By Elizabeth Douthart

For young women the world over, leaving home for the first time and getting married can be very intimidating prospects. But imagine a time and place when doing both means heading out to sea for three years to live as the only female among thirty strangers-one of whom is your new husband. In The Flensing Knife , the time is the mid-nineteenth century and the place is Falmouth, the small New England town where seventeen-year-old Celia Alden was born and raised. Upon falling in love with her older brother's friend, Captain Caleb Jones, the two are soon married and, despite their families' misgivings, she sets sail with him. At first overcome by seasickness and homesickness, Celia gradually learns to accept this suddenly alien world, where the sea itself is a strange and powerful force. Her voyage takes her halfway across the globe to exotic lands and transforms her from a narrow-minded teenage girl into a strong woman, facing the world with love and understanding. Taking its title from a tool for stripping the skin and blubber from a whale, The Flensing Knife delivers action, adventure, and romance on the high seas with remarkable historical accuracy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692441808
• ISBN13: 9780692441800
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Lonely Cloud Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.0" x 5.1"