About this title: A maritime history that considers the part played behind the scenes by sea captains' wives, who often accompanied their husbands on voyages and almost always managed the family business affairs on shore.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684854342ISBN:0684854341
Description: Good. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780684854342ISBN:0684854341
Description: Very Good. 0684854341 Slight lift to cover fore-edge, else Near Fine. 274 pp. An entertaining history into the mini-world of these captain's wives Illustrated. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Touchstone Books, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684854342ISBN:0684854341
Description: As New. 0684854341 274pp including index Lots of photos and illustrations A fascinating account of ship captain's wives lives aboard the ship. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NY
Date Published: 1998
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Unknown printing. 262 p. ; index; Has some b/w illustrations. A study of merchant sea captains who took their wives along. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York. Touchstone Books
Date Published: 1999
Description: Paperback edition of the 1998 original. 274 PP with 12 head pieces and over 105 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14. ISBN 684854341. The honeymooners...Sex and the seafaring wife...On shore in a foreign land. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: TOUCHSTONE PRESS
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780684854342ISBN:0684854341
Description: New. A "hen frigate", traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds--wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels enc... read more
Description: PB. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. ISBN: 0-684-85434-1. First-person accounts from the remarkable wives of merchant captains who shipped aboard with their husbands, enduring the trials and dangers and reaping the rewa rds of their unusual lives at sea. 288 pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Touchstone, 1998
ISBN-13:9780684854342ISBN:0684854341
Description: Very Good. 0684854341 Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Thus. Edges of the wraps are lightly rubbed; light dust soiling along the edges of hte textblock. read more
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