Lisa Norling. Captain Ahab Had a Wi...

Lisa Norling. Captain Ahab Had a Wife: recently made known England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720--1870 Chapel Hill: U of north carolina P 2000 372 pp ISBN 0-8078-2561-1 $4500 cloth; ISBN 0-8078-4870-0 $2495 paper.

The last year has seen a renewed popular interest in nineteenth-century whaling. Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex give an account ofed the real-life voyage onward which Melville patterned Moby Dick. Sena Naslund narrated Melville's famous epic from a female perspective in Ahab Wife: The Star Gazer. as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but Naslund and Philbrick ...