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Sto caricando le informazioni... She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea (2000)di Joan Druett
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The book goes way back in time to ancient times like 500BC. I personally, found the more modern chapters the most interesting. And by more modern, I mean 1800s onwards. It's the kind of book where you can read whichever chapters you like. I found the book to be well-researched - there are a tonne of references at the back if you want to know more about a particular type of 'she captain' like priates, widows, etc. If you are interested in social history, it's worth a read. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Historian Joan Druett tells us what life was like for the women who dared to captain ships of their own, don pirates' garb, and perform heroic and hellacious deeds on the high seas. From the warrior queens of the sixth century B.C. to the women shipwners influential in opening the Northwest Passage, Druett has assembled a real-life cast of characters whose boldness and bravado will capture popular imaginations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)387.54044082Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Rivers, Oceans, and Flight Maritime HistoryClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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What I didn't like about this book was the times it didn't really talk about women at sea, but rather women whose husband were at sea and they stayed home. It wasn't really what I wanted. Also, the use of the word "female" as a noun and the casual use of "transvestite" to describe a lot of the women who cross-dressed kinda put me off. But the stories were interesting, and the snide-ish comment by the author were funny, so mostly I enjoyed it. ( )