The Sea Captain's Wife, (Paperback)

from Twink

Oh, can I tell you how much I loved The Sea Captain's Wife! Azuba is the daughter of a shipwright in 1860's New Brunswick, Canada. She has grown up around the water and dreams of being a sea captain's wife sailing with her husband around the world. Her dreams seem like they will come true when sh...

from loosha

Be careful what you wish for. When Azuba was a little girl, she idolized the tough independent women who sailed on the merchant ships with their husbands and wanted to be like them. But when she married her sea captain, her dream did not come true. Her parents' gift of a beautiful home, her pregn...

from gypsysmom

This was a terrific book. Azuba grew up in Whelan's Cove, on the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick. She dreamed of marrying a sea captain and going to sea with him like she saw other women doing. When she does marry a sea captain, Nathaniel Bradstock, she is sure the dream is going to come true but i...

from Iudita

This was a very good book that was hard to put down. The story begins with a young wife in the late 1800's who is married to a Sea Captain that is away for very long stretches of time. She desperately wants to go with him when he sails and he is dead set against it. Circumstances happen that forc...

from JOANNEE

This is a great piece of writing. It is mostly the voyage of husband and wife travelling from St John, New Brunswick around the Horn to San Fransico, back around the Horn to Belgium, on to Hong Kong. It is a fascinating read, set in the l860's and I could honestly say I couldn't put the book down...