Details

Subjects:

Bowditch (Ship) -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Women anthropologists -- Fiction.
Whaling -- Fiction.
Whaling.

Form/Genre:

Fiction.

Place of Publication:

England London.

Summary:

A young anthroplogist in the South Seas is carried back in time to a whaling vessel in the year 1821.

Local notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy inscribed by the author to Lorraine Paradise (possibly to be identified with Roger Williams Park Museum employee Lorraine Margaret Paradise, later Hempe; 1932-2017) in blue ink on front free endpaper.
Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket (with manuscript corrections in blue ink to text of front flap) retained.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Cormack, Maribelle, 1902-1984 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Hempe, Lorraine Paradise, 1932-2017 (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Penn Chronology:

1961

Contributor:

George G. Harrap & Co., publisher.
Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

30108000