Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "brings to life scores of little-known but fascinating mariners, from the twelfth-century pirate princess Alvilda of Sweden to Lieutenant Junior Grade Beverly Kelly, first woman ever to command a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. . . Through their own journals and letters women tell us what it was like to raise children - and pigs and chickens, too - on a whaling voyage that might last for several years. We see nineteen-year-old Mary Patten take the clipper ship Neptune's Car on the perilous passage around the Horn while her captain husband lies gravely ill, and we share the thoughts of a young woman crew member of a Greenpeace ship. . . a book that restores to their proper place some authentic heroines of maritime history." Suggestions for further reading, index. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-395324343.