num_pages: 311
description: The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
language: English
title: The Captain's Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860
titlecomplete: The Captain's Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860
genres: Nonfiction, Biography, History
ratings_count: 24
publisher: Brown University Press