Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)

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Summary: Excellent Accounts of the Sea
Review: Joan Druett has put together fascinating stories about women that set sail with their husbands. Not only have their trials and tribulations been recorded, but first hand accounts from diaries were beautifully interlaced among the stories.

The illustrations are well done and I agree with other reviews in that it was a hard book to put down. The material was well researched and very easy to read.

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Summary: Great fun and fascinating history
Review: Joan Druett's Hen Frigates: Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail is a delightful book. Profusely illustrated, this largely anecdotal account gives the sense of life at sea during the age of sail from the woman's perspective. Because, however, so much of the hardships of sail belonged to the whole crew, Dreutt does not limit her writing to the wives, although much of her point of view is taken from several journals and diaries of these intrepid women. This is not so much a work of interpretative history or argument as it is a collection of delightful yarns. I found Druett a very pleasant and amiable companion.

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Summary: A fascinating subject.
Review: Well researched and packed with information - yet it reads like a novel. Very enjoyable. Give us more Joan Druett!