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From Cabin Boys to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea
Jo Stanley
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Description for From Cabin Boys to Captains: 250 Years of Women at Sea
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 80 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTM; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Traditionally, a woman's place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waves on everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their daring story is barely known, even by today's seawomen. From before the 1750s, women fancying an oceangoing life had either to disguise themselves as cabin `boys' or acquire a co-operative husband with a ship attached. Early pioneers faced superstition and discrimination in the briny `monasteries'. Today women captain cruise ships as big as towns and work at the highest level in the global ... Read more
Traditionally, a woman's place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waves on everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their daring story is barely known, even by today's seawomen. From before the 1750s, women fancying an oceangoing life had either to disguise themselves as cabin `boys' or acquire a co-operative husband with a ship attached. Early pioneers faced superstition and discrimination in the briny `monasteries'. Today women captain cruise ships as big as towns and work at the highest level in the global ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780752488783
SKU
V9780752488783
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Ref
99-50
About Jo Stanley
Jo Stanley is a former journalist and adult education teacher and the author of Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages.
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