The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World

"[U]ndeniably one of the greatest stories of a bygone era." - Wall Street Journal

The true story of the first female captain of a merchant ship and her treacherous navigation of Antarctica's deadly waters, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot

Summer, 1856

Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their first clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshu...