New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality.

New / New. Item #15778
ISBN: 0375500413

In this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that in fact an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains.

A few were smuggled aboard by officers or seaman. A number of cases have come to light of young women dressing in men’s clothes and working alongside the sailors for months, and sometimes years.

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