Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920 Equipment & Supplies and the elements in a

and the elements in a harsher climate took a terrible toll on men

but in 1991 Jimmy Breslin narrowly escaped death - which inspired him to write this book about his life

Tracy sent herself to boarding school and began the long slow process of recovery

General Boris Karpov

she discovers life-changing friendships along the way

Petticoat Whalers: Whaling Wives at Sea, 1820-1920 Equipment & Supplies and the elements in aThis is the colourful tale of the whaling ships that plied the Pacific, Atlantic and Antarctic oceans in the nineteenth century, and the men and women who worked and lived on them. Women? Yes an extraordinary number did accompany their husband skippers on their long and perilous voyages, despite danger, privation and the undoubted brutality of the trade. The women travelled from a variety of motivations to keep their men from the demon grog and the