She Went a Whaling: The Journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown, 1847-1849

One of the women who accompanied her whaling-captain husband for an adventure on the whaling grounds, Martha Smith Brewer Brown kept a journal in 1847 and 1848, and it is presented here edited by Anne MacKay in a little book that makes a large contribution to women's history and whaling history. The very religious Martha Brown writes about her fears, her moral concerns, shipboard life, whale-hunting, and especially her distress during eight months ashore in Honolulu with a baby on the way, a husband in the Sea of Okhotsk, and not enough money in her purse.Martha Smith Brown is the author of 'She Went a Whaling: The Journal of Martha Smith Brewer Brown, 1847-1849' with ISBN 9780963191120 and ISBN 0963191128.