Women of the Sea

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Included in this lively collection of tales are:

* Hannah Burgess, who navigated her husband's clipper ship safely to port after his death
* His Kai Ching, a widow who took command of her husband's pirate fleet
* Mrs. Jones, a Methodist missionary who was the sole survivor of the Maria, wrecked off the coast of Antigua in 1826
* Madame Desnoyer, who was cast adrift with her two children and a servant off Santo Domingo in 1767, after her husband had been murdered
* Alice Rowe Snow, the author's own mother, who spent most of her first twenty years at sea aboard ships commanded by her father

As with the other Snow Centennial Editions, first issued in 2002 on the 100th anniversary of Snow's birth, Women of the Sea has been edited and updated by historian Jeremy D'Entremont. It features a foreword by Snow's daughter and only child, Dorothy Snow Bicknell. Hardcover, 220 pages, published by Commonwealth Editions.

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