The sea captain's wife : a true story of mutiny, love, and adventure at the bottom of the world / Tilar J. Mazzeo.
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TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025Edition: First editionDescription: 270 pages : maps ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250352583
- Patten, Mary Anne Brown, 1837-1861
- Patten, Joshua A., 1826 or 7-1857
- Neptune's Car (Clipper ship)
- Women ship captains -- United States -- Biography
- Ship captains -- United States -- Biography
- Clipper ships -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Sailing ships -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Merchant marine -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Racing
- Ocean travel
- Voyages and travels
- 387.5092 B 23/eng/20251124
- VK140.P38 M39 2025
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Includes bibliographical references.
"Summer, 1856. Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband Joshua were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their first clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshua as captain. If they could win [a] race to San Francisco that year, their dream of building a farm and a family might be within reach. It would mean freedom. And the price of that freedom was one last dangerous transit--into the most treacherous waters in the world. As their ship, Neptune's Car, left New York Harbor and sailed down the jagged coast of South America, Joshua fell deathly ill and was confined to his bunk, delirious. ... With no obvious option for a new captain and heartbroken about her husband, Mary Ann stepped into the breach and convinced the crew to support her, just as they slammed into a gale that would last 18 days. ... Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush and taking us to the brink of Antarctica, [this book] finally gives Mary Ann Patten--the first woman to command a merchant vessel as captain--her due"-- Provided by publisher.