Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920 Equipment & Supplies Leather Bound

Leather Bound

With both sides employing pioneering tradecraft

ISBN13: B004YDKGUS ISBN10: B004YDKGUS Material Type: unknown_binding

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Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920 Equipment & Supplies Leather BoundThis is the colourful tale of the whaling ships that plied the Pacific, Atlantic and Antarctic oceans in the nineteenth century, and the men and women who worked and lived on them. Women? Yes an extraordinary number did accompany their husband skippers on their long and perilous voyages, despite danger, privation and the undoubted brutality of the trade. The women travelled from a variety of motivations to keep their men from the demon grog and the