Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (525 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375758720 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 286 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tons of Information Tamii This book is the sexiest and most informative I've read yet about female sailors and women who made their living off of the nautical trade. A lot of myths and misconceptions are explained, explored and put to rest. The author has done an impressive job with this subject and I applaud him for his decent treatment of women who led very untraditional(yet exciting) lives and professions.. Women in 18th and 19th Century Maritime Culture. mirasreviews Seafaring life in the 18th and 19th centuries has fascinated modern history enthusiasts and captured the imaginations of novelists and filmmakers. In "Women Sailors and Sailors' Women", author David Cordingly explores an aspect of lives spent at sea that has traditionally received little attention: the women who directly or indirectly participated in the maritime lifestyle. What is often thought of as a very male culture was populated with women as well. So who were they? In answering this questio. Rob Hardy said Cherchez Les Femmes!. Women have been held to have particular power over the sea. Mermaids, of course, enchanted the sailors, as did the Sirens. And yet, there is an ancient superstition that women are not good for ships. The contradiction between woman as sea power and woman as sea jinx is hard to understand. It is discussed, but not resolved, in _Women Sailors & Sailors' Women: An Untold Maritime History_ (Random House) by David Cordingly, a wide-ranging look at women and the high seas during the great age of sail. C
And Cordingly has unearthed stories of a number of young women who dressed in men’s clothes and worked alongside sailors for months, sometimes years, without ever revealing their gender. His tremendous research shows that there was indeed a thriving female population—from pirates to the sirens of myth and legend—on and around the high seas. For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled aboard by officers or seamen. A landmark work of women’s history disguised as a spectacularly entertaining yarn, Women Sailors and Sailor’s Women will surprise and delight.
From Publishers Weekly The shipwrecked sailor is a familiar figure, but what of the woman lighthouse keeper who rescued him? Readers of sea lore know the pirate Calico Jack, but what about his mistress Anne Bonny and her lover, Mary Read? An Oxford-trained maritime museum curator, Cordingly (Under the Black Flag) writes back into naval history these and other women who went to sea with their lovers, either as wives or as cross-dressing "cabin boys." Although he sometimes wanders away from his primary subject to describe great moments in maritime history only distantly connected to women, his tales are so compelling it's hard to begrudge him the digressions. (Mar. The only shortcoming to this delightful volume is its lack of illustrations. For instance, his sangfroid account of how a cross-dressing woman sail