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The sea captain's wife a true story of mutiny, love, and adventure at the bottom of the world

"Summer, 1856 Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their first clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshua as captain. If they could win the race to San Francisco that year, thei...

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Main Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Patten, Mary Ann Brown, > 1837-1861
Patten, Joshua A., > 1826 or 1827-1857
Women ship captains > United States > Biography.
Ship captains > United States > Biography.
Clipper ships > United States > History > 19th century.
Sailing ships > United States > History > 19th century.
Merchant marine > United States > History > 19th century.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Penobscot Bay
  • Boston
  • Business in great waters
  • The road to Liverpool
  • Pathfinder of the seas
  • The first circumnavigation
  • Westward ho!
  • All the tea in China
  • Cape Horn
  • The tempest
  • The last of mist and snow
  • The long way round
  • The iron embrace of the isthmus
  • A mighty pretty woman and a heroine
  • The sea captain's widow
  • Epilogue : are there seas in heaven, Joshua?

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