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The Captain’s Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860
Author(s): Mary Chipman. Lawrence (Author), Stanton Garner
- Publisher: University Press of New England
- Publication Date: 1 May 1986
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 340 pages
- ISBN-10: 0874513669
- ISBN-13: 9780874513660
Book Description
The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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”
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“About the Author
STANTON GARNER is Professor of American Literature, University of Texas Arlington and author of Harold Frederic (1969).
