Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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 menâ??s clothes and worked alongside sailors for months, sometimes years, without ever revealing their gender. His tremendous research shows that there was indeed a thriving female populationâ??from pirates to the sirens of myth and legendâ??on and around the high seas. A landmark work of womenâ??s history disguised as a spectacularly entertaining yarn, Women Sailors and Sailorâ??s Women will surprise and delight.Read More

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  • 0375758720
  • 9780375758720
  • David Cordingly
  • 8 May 2007
  • Random House Trade
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • Reprint
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