| Description |
xvi, 655 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
In this spellbinding novel, inspired by Moby Dick, Una Spenser, a remarkable heroine, flashes back to her sometimes troubled childhood, her idyllic adolescence with her aunt and uncle's family at an isolated lighthouse, her adventures disguised as a cabin boy on a whaling ship, her first marriage to a fellow shipwreck survivor who descends into violent madness, courtship and marriage to Ahab, life as a mother an rich captain's wife, and her final union where she discovers her truest happiness |
| Notes |
Previously published : 2000 |
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Novel inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick |
| Subject |
Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Women and the sea -- Fiction.
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Ship captains' spouses -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116249
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Author |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Moby Dick.
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| ISBN |
1865084840 : |
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