HEN FRIGATES
Subtitle: Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: May 4, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780684854342
Subjects: Women's studies; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; Sailing - Narratives; History: World; History; History - General History; Women's Studies - History; Ship captains' spouses; Maritime History; History / United States / 19th Century; Modern - 19th Century; Women's Studies - General; Biography
First sentence: On October 3, 1906, twenty-year-old Georgia Maria Gilkey of Searsport, Maine, was married in her graduation dress.