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Laleh Khalili: Seafaring, 23 July 2026

The Sea Captain’s Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love and Adventure at the Bottom of the World 
by Tilar J. Mazzeo.
St Martins, 288 pp., $30, December 2025, 978 1 250 35258 3
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Archives of Intimacy: Racial Mixing and Chinese Lives in the Colonial Port City, 1905-49 
by Nadine Attewell.
Stanford, 330 pp., £26.99, July, 978 1 5036 4710 7
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... Sally’ – women who ran boarding houses and partnered with foreign seafarers.Nadine Attewell’s​ Archives of Intimacy considers racial mixing in three port cities – London, Liverpool and Hong Kong – in the first half of the 20th century. Attewell uses archival records, memoirs and ...

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