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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 Show More
by Tilar J. Mazzeo.
St Martins, 288 pp., $30, December 2025,
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 Show More
by Nadine Attewell.
Stanford, 330 pp., £26.99, July,
“... ships, male seafarers were rarely eager to obey their authority. Mary Patten, the protagonist of Tilar Mazzeo’s The Sea Captain’s Wife, went to sea in 1856 aboard Neptune’s Car, a 64-metre-long clipper known for its speed. She was 19 years old and pregnant. When her husband, Joshua Patten, fell ill with tubercular meningitis in the South ... ”
