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

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

by David Cordingly

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2007
  • PAPER

A fascinating survey of women who went to sea -- as wives, crossdressing cabin boys or even lighthouse keepers -- during the age of sail. David Cordingly (Under the Black Flag), formerly with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich is a marvelous storyteller.  (OCE94, $17.00)


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