Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830 1870 by Margaret S. Creighton

Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830 1870

Margaret S. Creighton

250 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender history informative medium-paced
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Traditional accounts of whaling celebrate exotic locales and dangerous exploits but shed little light on the lives of the men who went to sea. Rites and Passages places sailors at the center of a social history of whaling and explores the ways in ...

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