Women Sailors and Sailors' Women
Subtitle: An Untold Maritime History
Edition: Largeprint edition
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780786235247
Subjects: Sailing - Narratives; Sports & Recreation; Fiction; Large type books; Action & Adventure; Women and the sea
First sentence: THE ENGLISH ARTIST THOMAS ROWLANDSON WAS AN ASTUTE OBSERVER of sailors and their women, and his engravings provide a vivid picture of life in the waterfront taverns of London around 1800.