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A gripping novel of love and adventure on the high seas that introduces an unforgettable young heroine.
Growing up on the Bay of Fundy in the 1860s, Azuba Galloway is determined to escape the confines of her town and live at sea. When she captures the heart of Captain Nathaniel Bradstock, she is sure her dreams are about to be realized, only to have pregnancy intervene. But when Azuba becomes embroiled in a scandal, Nathaniel must bring his young family abroad to save his reputation. Azuba gets her wish, but at what price?
Alone in a male world, and juggling the splendor of foreign ports with the terror of the open seas, Azuba must fight to keep her family together. Blending the high-tension drama of missed chances and unexpected twists of the sort that made A Reliable Wife a bestseller with the pluck and spirit of a heroine in the vein of Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Sea Captain's Wife will captivate readers and critics alike.
I don't know what took me so long to read this book! It's been on my shelf for years. I even went to the book launch that was held for it! Anyway, this was a great read. There were so many ups and downs throughout the story. I felt a little annoyed by Azuba a few times but she turned herself around and became a great character. There were lots of emotions in this one and it's a great read for anyone interested in the seafaring life of the past. You can tell a lot of research went into it and it was fun to look at the map to see where their travels took them. Put it on your list! ( )
I thought this story was amazing. The characters are so well described you become attached to them. You really live the experience of travelling the seas in the 1840’s. Difficult to read at times but what an adventure. Recommended. ( )
I picked up this book at a library booksale because my previous reading by Powning proved her to be an excellent, expressive writer. This novel of a 19th century Canadian sea captain and his new wife did not disappoint. Powning can transport the reader to the horrifying experience of rounding Cape Horn under sail, a month in the doldrums, or being attacked by pirates, so well that you can well imagine what it was like. A completely enthralling novel. ( )
Everything Beth Powning does is good, and this book is no exception. Beautiful, creative use of language, interesting docu-drama type story, with plenty of 'human interest'. The latter is what kept me reading. Powning obviously has a deep understanding of people and relationships. Her portrait of the relationship between the sea captain's wife and the priest is so spot on that I felt I was watching from deep inside the character's mind. ( )
All she ever wanted was life at sea with a sea-faring husband. When Azuba marries a ship’s captain, she thinks her dreams have come true, until her safety causes him to reconsider. Longing for the sea and her husband, she is dissatisfied with life on land. When, eventually, the captain agrees to take his wife and young daughter on his next voyage, some of the horrific circumstances they encounter during their many months at sea cause her regret. During her life, she has met sea-faring families of all types – captains who travel for years without seeing their families, families who travel together, captain’s wives who travel and leave their children behind. Azuba loves the sea and wants her family together. It all comes down to that.
Beth Powning’s characters felt real to their times. Her research was seamless in the story, not shoehorned in. I thoroughly enjoyed her writing and her story. ( )
New Brunswick's Beth Powning lets her imagination run away from her in The Sea Captain's Wife. This turns out to be just fine, as we lucky readers get to go along for the voyage.
Infused with rich period detail, right down to the bone buttons that adorn their hand-sewn clothes, the Age of Sail is alive and of real local import in Powning's looking glass.
For travellers, virtual and actual, The Sea Captain's Wife offers a fine and variegated journey: back in time (to the 1860s) and around the world on a merchant sailing ship.
The book is clearly thoroughly researched, yet never reads as written research but as lives fully and panoramically lived. It reads as real. I am a witness to its truth and sweep. I read, and was there.
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The nearest dream recedes, unrealized, The heaven we chase Like the June bee...
Emily Dickinson, Poem 30
Did sea define the land or land the sea? Each drew new meaning from the waves' collision. Sea broke on land to full identity.
Seamus Heaney, Lovers in Aran
Opdracht
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To Peter
traveller and companion
wind and stars
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Whelan's Cove is a place of departures.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
She watched the pulsing coals, thinking of how only yesterday she’d caught herself watching the birds, envying them their freedom to fly away home, and then remembered how she had stood on the beach in Whelan’s Cove, outlining her lips with a feather, still envying the birds, thinking of freedom as sailing away to sea.
Love, like hope, changed. It was buried in small moments and came most strongly when least expected. Freedom, Azuba saw, came at the same time, and so was not a matter of choice, but of grace. One could not find it, but rather was swept by it, as when she stepped from her corset and sighed, soothing with her fingers the welts on her skin. It was a kind of relief, a brief tumble into unbounded clarity.
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Natahaniel stood in the field behind the house. As if he were on deck, his legs were set wide, his hands folded behind his back. He was gazing out over the wind-rippled grass at all the empty places where he would plant his little trees.
A gripping novel of love and adventure on the high seas that introduces an unforgettable young heroine.
Growing up on the Bay of Fundy in the 1860s, Azuba Galloway is determined to escape the confines of her town and live at sea. When she captures the heart of Captain Nathaniel Bradstock, she is sure her dreams are about to be realized, only to have pregnancy intervene. But when Azuba becomes embroiled in a scandal, Nathaniel must bring his young family abroad to save his reputation. Azuba gets her wish, but at what price?
Alone in a male world, and juggling the splendor of foreign ports with the terror of the open seas, Azuba must fight to keep her family together. Blending the high-tension drama of missed chances and unexpected twists of the sort that made A Reliable Wife a bestseller with the pluck and spirit of a heroine in the vein of Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Sea Captain's Wife will captivate readers and critics alike.
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