Women Sailors and Sailors' Women: An Untold Maritime History - Hardcover

Cordingly, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375500413 ISBN 13: 9780375500411

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2001

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The author takes readers on a wild ride through three hundred years of maritime history in search of women pirates, captains, seafarers, and explorers who broke new ground in the male-dominated maritime world. 30,000 first printing.

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s the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters stayed on shore. Oceangoing adventurers and the crews of their ships were part of an all-male world — or were they?

In this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that in fact an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains. A few were smuggled aboard by officers or seaman. A number of cases have come to light of young women dressing in men’s clothes and working alongside the sailors for months, and sometimes years. In the U.S. and Britsh navies, it was not uncommon for the wives of bosuns, carpenters, and cooks to go to sea on warships. Cordingly’s tremendous research shows that there was indeed a thriving female population — from female pirates to the sirens of legend — on and around the high seas.

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375500413
• ISBN 13: 9780375500411
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286