[PDF.93sw] Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives

Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives

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 | #753846 in Books |  2001 |  2002-03-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.67 x5.18l,.51 | File type: PDF | 286 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Not about women, especially not women at sea.|By Gina|Considering the title of the book is "Seafaring Women", I expected the book to be about women who were at sea. The first chapter is about prostitutes (though, to be totally fair, there was a passing mention of a floating brothel, so those women were *technically* on the water). The second chapter is about press gangs and con|From Publishers Weekly|The shipwrecked sailor is a familiar figure, but what of the woman lighthouse keeper who rescued him? Readers of sea lore know the pirate Calico Jack, but what about his mistress Anne Bonny and her lover, Mary Read? An Oxford-trained marit

For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled aboard by officers or seamen. And Cordingly has unearthed stories of a number of young women who dressed in men’s clothes and worked alongside sailors for months, sometimes ye...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives   |  David Cordingly.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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