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1) Women sailors and sailors' women: an untold maritime history

Author

Cordingly, David

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

2) The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Author

Avi

Series

Newbery Medal Honor
Orchard classics

Language

English

Appears on list

6th Grade Books Cranston

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Description

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As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.

4) Seafaring women: adventures of pirate queens, female stowaways, and sailors' wives

Author

Cordingly, David

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

5) Miss Rumphius

Author

Cooney, Barbara

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio Enabled Book

Description

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"As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all." --

6) Iron men, wooden women: gender and seafaring in the Atlantic world, 1700-1920

Series

Gender relations in the American experience

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date

1996.

Language

English

7) Seafaring women

Author

De Pauw, Linda Grant

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

1982.

Language

English

Description

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Discusses women at sea throughout history in both feminine and masculine roles, including those of pirate, warrior, whaler, trader, and the greatly expanding roles of recent times.

8) Women under sail: letters and journals concerning eight women travelling or working in sailing vessels between 1829 and 1949

Author

Greenhill, Basil

Publisher

David & Charles

Pub. Date

[1970]

Language

English

9) Sail away ladies: stories of Cape Cod women in the age of sail

Author

Coogan, Jim

Publisher

Harvest Home Books

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

10) Aquicorn cove

Author

O'Neill, Kay

Series

Aquicorn Cove

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eComic, Graphic Novel, Kindle

Description

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Unable to rely on the adults in her storm-ravaged seaside town, a young girl must protect a colony of magical seahorse-like creatures she discovers in the coral reef... A heartfelt story about learning to be a guardian to yourself and those you love. When Lana and her father return to their seaside hometown to help clear the debris of a big storm, Lana remembers how much she's missed the ocean--and the strong, reassuring presence of her aunt. As Lana...

11) Lure of the trade winds: two women sailing the Pacific Ocean

Author

Talley, Jeannine

Publisher

iUniverse

Pub. Date

2010.

Language

English

Description

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Lure of the Trade Winds: Two Women Sailing the Pacific Ocean transports readers to a place where few have gone before: aboard a thirty-four-foot boat, cruising the Pacific Ocean. Join author, Jeannine Talley, as she and her sailing partner, Joy Smith, embark on the journey of a lifetime. Each day is a new adventure aboard the Banshee. Talley and her partner are stranded on a reef in Vanuatu, contract malaria, rescue a wrecked boat, visit a skull site...