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Author:

Naslund, Sena Jeter.

Title:

Ahab's wife ; or, the star-gazer / a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund; illustrations by Christopher Wormell.

Edition:

1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.

Publisher:

Harper Perennial Modern Classics,

Copyright Date:

2009, c1999

Description:

xvii, 668 p., 16p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Ship captains' spouses--Fiction.
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Fiction.
Women--Massachusetts--Fiction.
Whalers' spouses--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Other Authors:

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
Wormell, Christopher.

Notes:

Inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Summary:

The adventures of Una Spenser who went to sea disguised as a cabin boy. Shipwrecked, she marries one of the survivors, then falls in love with Captain Ahab, a man obsessed with a white whale. She becomes involved in fighting slavery and in women's rights.

ISBN:

0061767654
9780061767654

OCLC:

(OCoLC)262884884

LCCN:

99022135

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