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The adventures of Una Spenser who went to sea disguised as a cabin boy. Shipwrecked, she marries one of the survivors, then falls in love with Captain Ahab, a man obsessed with a white whale. She becomes involved in fighting slavery and in women's rights.

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Main Author: Naslund, Sena Jeter
Other Authors: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, Wormell, Christopher
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2009.
Edition:1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
Online Access:Go to Downloadable eBook Here.
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Summary:The adventures of Una Spenser who went to sea disguised as a cabin boy. Shipwrecked, she marries one of the survivors, then falls in love with Captain Ahab, a man obsessed with a white whale. She becomes involved in fighting slavery and in women's rights.
Item Description:Inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Physical Description:xvii, 668 p., 16p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9780061767654
0061767654
Author Notes:Sena Jeter Naslund was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1942. She received a Bachelor's degree from Birmingham Southern College, where she received the B.B. Comer Medal in English, and a Master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught at the University of Louisville, the University of Montana, Indiana University (Bloomington), Vermont College, and the University of Montevallo. She has written several books including The Disobedience of Water, Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette, and Adam and Eve. She has won numerous awards including the Harper Lee Award, the Hall-Waters Southern Prize, the Southeastern Library Association Award, and the Alabama Library Association Award.

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