Bibliograph

Lady castaways, Joan Druett

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Lady castaways, Joan Druett

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lady castaways

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Joan Druett

Summary

It was not just the men who lived on the brink of peril when under sail at sea. Lucretia Jansz, who was enslaved as a concubine in 1629, was just one woman who endured a castaway experience. Award-winning historian Joan Druett (Island of the Lost, The Elephant Voyage), relates the stories of women who survived remarkable challenges, from heroines like Mary Ann Jewell, the "governess" of Auckland Island in the icy sub-Antarctic, to Millie Jenkins, whose ship was sunk by a whale

Target audience

adult

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