Bibliograph

Seafaring women, adventures of pirate queens, female stowaways, and sailors' wives, David Cordingly

Type

Label

Seafaring women, adventures of pirate queens, female stowaways, and sailors' wives, David Cordingly

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Seafaring women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

David Cordingly

Sub title

adventures of pirate queens, female stowaways, and sailors' wives

Table Of Contents

Women on the waterfront -- The sailors' farewell -- Ann Parker and the mutiny at the Nore -- Female sailors: fact and fiction -- Hannah Snell, Mary Anne Talbot, and the female pirates -- Wives in warships -- Seafaring heroines -- Whaling wives -- Men without women -- Women and water, sirens and mermaids -- A wife in every port -- Two naval heroes and their women -- The lighthouse women -- The sailors' return

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