The Journal of a Sea Captain's Wife, 1841-1845: During a Passage and Sojourn in Hawaii and of a Trading Voyage to Oregon and California

by Lydia Rider Nye

Lydia Rider Nye's journal is unique: it is presently the only known journal kept by a wife of a ship captain during a voyage along the Pacific Coast prior to 1848. Indeed, it may be the only known journal kept by an American hide and tallow sea captain's wife while voyaging along the Pacific Coast in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Other wives accompanied their husbands aboard ship during the early 19th century, but without recording...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870623095
• ISBN13: 9780870623097
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"