Seafaring Women
Subtitle: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: May 8, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780375758720
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.