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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
by Norling, Lisa
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807825611
- ISBN 13
- 9780807825617
- Seller
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High Point, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Cat's Cradle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4490058
- Title
- Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
- Author
- Norling, Lisa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0807825611
- ISBN 13
- 9780807825617
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, N.C.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- HISTORY, UNITED STATES, AMERICA, NEW ENGLAND, NANTUCKET, NEW BEDFORD, WHALEFISHERY, WHALING, WOMEN
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Americana;
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High Point, North Carolina
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