The Captain's Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860

by Mary Chipman. Lawrence, Stanton Garner (Editor)

Overview

The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874513660
Publisher:	University Press of New England
Publication date:	04/01/1986
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

STANTON GARNER is Professor of American Literature, University of Texas Arlington and author of Harold Frederic (1969).

Editorial Reviews

Mary Chipman Lawrence wasn’t the first wife who ever accompanied her husband on a whaling voyage, nor was she the last, but I doubt if any woman ever wrote a diary of her voyage in better style or more interestingly.”—Bradford Swan, Providence Journal

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