In Search of a Fair Wind: The Sea Letters of Georgia Townsend Yates,1891-1892

by Cargile, Clint
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ISBN: 9781545230503
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How far will a young wife and mother go to find adventure? In 1891, twenty-four-year-old Georgia Townsend Yates packs up her infant daughter and leaves her affluent life in the farming town of Sycamore, Illinois, to journey halfway around the world. She has known her sea-captain husband, Jack Yates, for just two years, and her only knowledge of seafaring comes from literature. For fifteen months, Georgia lives in the closed-off world of her husband's ship, the Willie Reed. To record her journey, she writes letters to her mother back in Sycamore. Her sea letters show pluck and humor and provide a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of a captain's wife who does everything from mending shirts to hunting albatross. Georgia's insights on first-time motherhood, maritime domesticity, and even mutiny are as fresh and exciting today as when she wrote them. Supplemental material by historian Clint Cargile provides further context for the life and world of Georgia Townsend Yates. Her prominent family carved their path from New York to Illinois, bringing big ideas about industry and equality with them. Inheriting her family's wanderlust, Georgia follows her heart to the far side of the world before carving her own path in Maine and then Boise, Idaho. Her letters share the glory and tedium of an ocean voyage and exemplify her life-long quest In Search of a Fair Wind.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Cargile, Clint
  • ISBN: 9781545230503
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 0.54
  • Number Of Pages: 238
  • Publication Year: 2017

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