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SUMMARY:Saturday Book Discussion
LOCATION:Richmond Heights Branch\nRichmond Heights Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion of The Sea Captain's Wife. by 
 Tilar J. Mazzeo..\nhttps://cuyahoga.libnet.info/event/16004791
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p style="text-align: justify\;"><strong>Summ
 er\, 1856.</strong>&nbsp\;Nineteen-year-old&nbsp\;<strong>Mary Ann Patten&
 nbsp\;and her husband\, Joshua</strong>\, were young and ambitious.&nbsp\;
 <strong>Both from New England seafaring families</strong>\, they had alrea
 dy completed their first clipper ship voyage around the world with Joshua 
 as captain.</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">If they could win the ra
 ce to San Francisco that year and complete one more circumnavigation\, the
 ir dream of building a farm and a family might be within reach. It would m
 ean freedom. And the price of that freedom was one last dangerous transit 
 -- into the most perilous waters in the world. As their ship\,&nbsp\;<em><
 strong>Neptune's Car</strong></em>\,&nbsp\;left New York Harbor and sailed
  down the jagged coast of South America\, Joshua fell deathly ill and was 
 confined to his bunk\, delirious.</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">Th
 e treacherous first mate\, confined to the brig for insubordination\, was 
 agitating for mutiny. The second mate could not read -- and so\, could not
  navigate.</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">With no obvious option fo
 r a new captain and heartbroken about her husband\, Mary Ann stepped into 
 the breach and convinced the crew to support her\, just as they slammed in
 to a gale that would last eighteen days. Determined to save the ship\, the
  crew\, and their future\, she faced down the deadly waters of Drake's Pas
 sage and earned the admiration of a grizzled band of seamen with her indom
 itable spirit and raw courage.</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;">Set a
 gainst the backdrop of the California Gold Rush and taking us to the brink
  of Antarctica\,&nbsp\;<em><strong>The Sea Captain's Wife</strong></em>&nb
 sp\;finally gives&nbsp\;<strong>Mary Ann Patten - the first woman to comma
 nd a merchant vessel as captain</strong>&nbsp\;- her due. Mazzeo draws on 
 new archival research from nineteenth-century women's maritime journals an
 d on her own expedition to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica in search of 
 Mary Ann's route.</p>\n<p style="text-align: justify\;"><strong>Thrilling\
 , harrowing\, and heroic\,</strong>&nbsp\;<em><strong>The Sea Captain's Wi
 fe</strong></em>&nbsp\;is the story of one woman who\, for love\, would do
  what was necessary to survive"--&nbsp\;St. Martin's\, publisher.</p>\n<p 
 style="text-align: justify\;">Copies of&nbsp\;<em><strong>The Sea Captain'
 s Wife - A True Story of Mutiny\, Love\, and Adventure at the Bottom of th
 e World</strong></em>\, by&nbsp\;<strong>Tilar J. Mazzeo\,</strong> will b
 e available a the Richmond Heights Branch Reference Desk.</p>\nhttps://cuy
 ahoga.libnet.info/event/16004791
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