Women sailors and sailors' women: an untold maritime history [1st ed] 9780375506970, 0375506977

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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