TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mazzeo,Tilar J.
TI  - The sea captain's wife: a true story of mutiny, love, and adventure at the bottom of the world 
SN  - 9781250352583
AV  - VK140.P38 M39 2025
U1  - 387.5092B 23/eng/20251124
PY  - 2025///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Patten, Mary Anne Brown,
KW  - Patten, Joshua A.,
KW  - Neptune's Car (Clipper ship)
KW  - Women ship captains
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ship captains
KW  - Clipper ships
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Sailing ships
KW  - Merchant marine
KW  - Racing
KW  - Ocean travel
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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"--
ER  -