Women sailors and sailors' women : an untold maritime history /

Covers three hundred years of maritime history in search of women pirates, captains, seafarers, and explorers who broke new ground in the male-dominated maritime world.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cordingly, David (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, [2001]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Women and the sea. Femmes et mer. Vrouwen. Scheepvaart. Zeelieden. Engelsen. Amerikanen.
Online Access:	Sample text Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Women on the waterfront
The sailors' farewell
Ann Parker and the mutiny at the Nore
Female sailors: fact and fiction
Hannah Snell, Mary Anne Talbot, and the female pirates
Wives in warships
Seafaring heroines
Whaling wives
Men without women
Women and water, sirens and mermaids
A wife in every port
Two naval heroes and their women
The lighthouse women
The sailors' return.