The Sea Captain Wife edition by Beth Powning Literature Fiction eBooks
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Growing up on the Bay of Fundy, Azuba Galloway dreams of going to sea. She watches magnificent ships slowly making their way into Whelan’s Cove, the sense of exoticism bursting from their holds along with foreign goods.
As a young woman, Azuba marries a seasoned merchant sea captain, Nathaniel Bradstock. Unwilling to have him away at sea for most of their married life, and anxious to see far shores, she extracts a promise that he will take her with him. But Azuba becomes pregnant soon after they marry and Nathaniel knows too well the perils of life on a ship. He reneges on his promise and refuses to allow Azuba to join him.
When Nathaniel leaves on his journey, Azuba desperately misses her husband. Days turn into weeks and months – voyages can take two, three years before the ship and crew return home. Despite her loneliness, Azuba becomes a strong, independent woman, caring for her child and her home. With her parents and beloved grandmother nearby, she settles into a life of quietude and predictability, all the while yearning to be by her husband’s side aboard his ship.
Her loneliness eventually propels her into a friendship with the local vicar, Reverend Simon Walton. He is a quiet, kind and contemplative man, and Azuba takes comfort and enjoyment in their increasingly intimate friendship. One afternoon, despite her misgivings, Azuba goes on a picnic with the vicar and becomes trapped by the tide. When they return home the next morning, Azuba and Reverend Walton have become a topic of gossip.
When Nathaniel returns home he is enraged by her impropriety. Reluctantly he decides to take Azuba and their young daughter, Carrie, with him on his next voyage. Mother and child are loaded from a rowboat and hauled onto the weather deck along with barrels of coal and crates of chickens. Nathaniel has drawn a line across the deck. “You’ll never again cross that line,” he instructs Azuba.
It is October 1862. It will be three years before Azuba sees the shores of Whelan’s Cove again. Aboard Traveller, the small family visits places Azuba dreamed she would one day see London, San Francisco and exotic countries in Europe.
But she also experiences the terror that can come during a life at sea a harrowing passage around Cape Horn, half-starvation while listlessly floating in the doldrums, and a stop at the Chincha Islands to pick up a load of guano, where she witnesses a mass suicide by slaves. She begins to question her decision to join her husband, particularly when she realizes there is “no way to erase horror from a child’s memory.”
Misery follows misfortune and Azuba feels alone in a male world, surrounded by the splendour and the terror of the open sea. The voyage tests not only her already precarious marriage, but everything Azuba believes in.
With a sure hand, Beth Powning captures life aboard a sailing ship – ferocious storms, the impossibly isolated ports of call, the gruelling daily routine – and shows how love evolves even in the most extreme circumstances.
The Sea Captain’s Wife is an awe-inspiring tour that captures the vigour of life in the last days of the Age of Sail and gives us an unforgettable young heroine who shows compassion, courage and love while under incredible duress.
From the Hardcover edition.
The Sea Captain Wife edition by Beth Powning Literature Fiction eBooks
I've never heard of this author before, but while looking for new books awhile back, the synopsis of this caught my eye. It's very far from my normal reading material, but it's nice to step out of my box every now and again. This book was an absolute pleasure to read. It's so real and heartfelt that you can't help but be pulled in by Azuba and her determination to keep her family together.Growing up next to Mystic, CT, and later living there as an adult, I knew a so-so amount about the merchant ships that sailed the seas in the 19th century. I had no idea though that some captains brought their families along...even their children. As a mother, I can not imagine putting my child through the rigors of sea life, but Azuba doesn't really have much choice. She always wanted to sail with her husband, Nathaniel, and that was their plan when they married, but after the birth of their first child, Carrie, Nathaniel suddenly changed his mind.
Hating the monotony of life at home without her husband for years at a time, Azuba dreams through rose colored glasses of sailing with her husband and daughter. Well, after a small scandal involving herself and the town preacher, Azuba gets her wish. Nathaniel takes her along on his next voyage to get her out of town for awhile. What follows is their journey at sea, and Azuba growing up as a woman, mother, and wife. Storms, sleepless nights, exotic ports, hunger, piracy and death take it's toll on Azuba and her family, but there's also a slow realization that life isn't always as it seems, and sometimes it takes the most tragic of circumstances to understand how much someone means to you. Ms. Powning has an amazing ability of using exactly the right words to convey the most complicated emotions in the simplest of ways.
I absolutely recommend this book to anyone interested in reading it. It's an adventurous tale that will keep you up till the wee hours wondering what in the world could possibly happen next. As I said, I've never heard of this author before, but I'll definitely be checking put her previous novels. GREAT book!
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The Sea Captain Wife edition by Beth Powning Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
A most incredible historical fiction read relating to Saint Martins, New Brunswick and the Bay of Fundy in the 1800's. Just back from a phenomenal trip to Saint Martins, where sites to which the book refers and incorporates in the novel, are identifiable.
Book received in perfect condition, earlier than estimated timing.
There is much to discuss when reviewing Beth Powning's novel THE SEA CAPTAIN'S WIFE. There is the story itself; a reluctant sea captain includes his wife and daughter on a long ocean voyage that is anything but pleasant. There is the narrative; seemingly prosaic, but effectively framing powerful sensory images of landscape, weather, and tempestuous seas. There are the characters; realistically portrayed with all their strengths, frailties, doubts, and courage. And finally there is the writing; economical prose with simple sentences and concise structure that creates vivid imagery of commerce over the world's waters in the middle 1800s.
"Life at sea. The great sails like the wings of swans, cupping the light. The sounds of snapping and swash. The bells...monastic and serene."
Powning has created a masterful study of human determination and courage. After an accidental indiscretion, Azuba, a child of Canada's Bay of Fundy, who grew up in a shipbuilding family and always dreamed of sea voyages to foreign lands, is reluctantly allowed to accompany her husband, Captain Nathaniel Bradstock, on a lengthy voyage. It is not a happy time for either of them because the decision is based on jealousy and condescension. He is unhappy with his wife, overwhelmed with running his ship, and fearful that harm will come to his precious daughter. Tensions between the captain and his wife seem to carry over to his relationships with the crew, an unpleasantry not normally experienced during other voyages.
What follows is a kaleidoscopic view of a nineteenth century sea journey. There are exotic ports of call. Stormy seas threaten to overwhelm the ship. Slavery and mass suicide is observed. Near mutiny occurs as ship's stores run short. A pirate attack results in a grievous injury to Captain Bradstock. Through it all, lives are changed and relationships are mended.
The author's research is thorough. She touches on herbal and primitive medical practices, shipbuilding and handling, life aboard a sailing ship, the life and times of various port cities during the middle of the nineteenth century, and weather and water action in different parts of the ocean. The language throughout the book is totally appropriate for the period.
This novel is not a swashbuckler or bodice ripper, although elements of both are present. It is an adventure story that's an engrossing read and sure to be enjoyed.
Schuyler T Wallace
Author of TIN LIZARD TALES
I've never heard of this author before, but while looking for new books awhile back, the synopsis of this caught my eye. It's very far from my normal reading material, but it's nice to step out of my box every now and again. This book was an absolute pleasure to read. It's so real and heartfelt that you can't help but be pulled in by Azuba and her determination to keep her family together.
Growing up next to Mystic, CT, and later living there as an adult, I knew a so-so amount about the merchant ships that sailed the seas in the 19th century. I had no idea though that some captains brought their families along...even their children. As a mother, I can not imagine putting my child through the rigors of sea life, but Azuba doesn't really have much choice. She always wanted to sail with her husband, Nathaniel, and that was their plan when they married, but after the birth of their first child, Carrie, Nathaniel suddenly changed his mind.
Hating the monotony of life at home without her husband for years at a time, Azuba dreams through rose colored glasses of sailing with her husband and daughter. Well, after a small scandal involving herself and the town preacher, Azuba gets her wish. Nathaniel takes her along on his next voyage to get her out of town for awhile. What follows is their journey at sea, and Azuba growing up as a woman, mother, and wife. Storms, sleepless nights, exotic ports, hunger, piracy and death take it's toll on Azuba and her family, but there's also a slow realization that life isn't always as it seems, and sometimes it takes the most tragic of circumstances to understand how much someone means to you. Ms. Powning has an amazing ability of using exactly the right words to convey the most complicated emotions in the simplest of ways.
I absolutely recommend this book to anyone interested in reading it. It's an adventurous tale that will keep you up till the wee hours wondering what in the world could possibly happen next. As I said, I've never heard of this author before, but I'll definitely be checking put her previous novels. GREAT book!
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