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The Captain's Best Mate: The Journal of Mary Chipman Lawrence on the Whaler Addison, 1856-1860

Lawrence, Mary Chipman; Stanton Garner (editor)

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ISBN 10: 0874513669 / ISBN 13: 9780874513660
Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 1986
Used Condition: Near Fine Soft cover
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Stiff pictorial wraps. xxi,311 pp., illus., maps. Slight shelf wear, lightly foxed text block edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bookseller Inventory # 029640

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Title: The Captain's Best Mate: The Journal of Mary...

Publisher: University Press of New England, Hanover, NH

Publication Date: 1986

Binding: Softcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Edition: Second Printing.

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The diary of a wife who, with their five-year old daughter, accompanied her husband on a three-and-a-half year whaling voyage.

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6 x 9 trim. 5 illus. 9 maps. LC 83-40018

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