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My year before the mast Cover Image E-book E-book

My year before the mast

Summary: A memoir of Annette Brock Davis's life at sea as the first female crew member of a commercial sailing line.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0888822073
  • ISBN: 9780888822079
  • ISBN: 0977128989 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780977128983 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 1554882370 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9781554882373 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (216, [3] p., [8] p. of plates) : ill.
    remote
    electronic resource
  • Publisher: Toronto : Hounslow Press, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Getting Under Way; Chapter 2: L'Avenir and I Meet; Chapter 3: We Sail; Chapter 4: Shipmates; Chapter 5: Changing Sails; Chapter 6: Work and Music Aboard; Chapter 7: Crossing the Line; Chapter 8: Jumbo Proposes; Chapter 9: The Westerlies; Chapter 10: Port Germein; Chapter 11: L'Avenir Departs; Chapter 12: Stowaway; Chapter 13: Heavy Weather; Chapter 14: Airman Has Something to Say; Chapter 15: Otto; Chapter 16: I Turn the Ship Around; Chapter 17: Murder and Rape?; Chapter 18: Doldrums; Chapter 19: Spellbinding Trade Winds; Chapter 20: Anchored for Good.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
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Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Davis, Annette Brock -- 1912-
Davis, Annette Brock -- 1912-
TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial
Femmes marins -- Canada -- Biographies
TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / Pictorial
Women sailors
Women sailors -- Canada -- Biography
Davis, Annette Brock, 1912-
Canada
Genre: Electronic books.
Biography.

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