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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 Hardcover - 2000
by Lisa Norling
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In his tongue-in-cheek immortalization of Nantucket and its people in Moby-Dick, Melville linked the two elements of the island's society that rendered it so distinctive: its dominance by the Quaker faith and its dominance of the American whaling industry.
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- Title Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
- Author Lisa Norling
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill & London
- Date September 27, 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780807825617 / 0807825611
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.12 x 1 in (23.50 x 15.54 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Whaling - Massachusetts - New Bedford -, Women - Massachusetts - New Bedford - Social
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99088026
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.372
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Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean, DJ slightly faded at spine but with only very minor shelf wear. ; Reconstructs the lives of "Cape Horn widows" in New England, beginning with the rise of the whalefishery on Nantucket and continuing to mainland New Bedford in the 19th century. ; 9.5" tall; 372 pages.
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