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The biography "The Sea Captain's Wife" finally gives Mary Ann Patten, the first woman to command a merchant vessel as captain, her due. Author Tilar J. Mazzeo draws on new archival research from nineteenth-century women's maritime journals and on her own expedition to Antarctica in search of Mary Ann's route. Join us to discuss this thrilling, harrowing and heroic book. Adults.
The biography "The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World" finally gives Mary Ann Patten, the first woman to command a merchant vessel as captain, her due. Author Tilar J. Mazzeo draws on new archival research from nineteenth-century women's maritime journals and on her own expedition to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica in search of Mary Ann's route. Thrilling, harrowing and heroic, "The Sea Captain's Wife" is the story of one woman who, for love, would do what was necessary to survive.
Adults.
