She Went A-whaling: The Journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown from Orient, Long Island, New York, Around the World on...
- ISBN-10
- 0963191128
- ISBN-13
- 9780963191120
- Category
- Seafaring life
- Pages
- 103
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Mystic Seaport Museum Incorporated
- Author
- Martha Smith Brewer Brown
Description
One of the women who accompanied her whaling-captain husband for an adventure on the whaling grounds, Martha Smith Brewer Brown kept a journal in 1847 and 1848, and it is presented here edited by Anne MacKay in a little book that makes a large contribution to women's history and whaling history. The very religious Martha Brown writes about her fears, her moral concerns, shipboard life, whale-hunting, and especially her distress during eight months ashore in Honolulu with a baby on the way, a husband in the Sea of Okhotsk, and not enough money in her purse.
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