Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain Margaret Willson

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1728240050
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1728240053
• Author(s): Margaret Willson

Every day was a fight for survival, equality, and justice for Iceland’s most renowned female fishing captain of the 19th century.

History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation.

This is her remarkable story.

Captain Thurídur, born in Iceland in 1777, lived a life that was both controversial and unconventional. Her first time fishing, on the open unprotected rowboats of her time, was at age 11. Soon after, she audaciously began wearing trousers. She later became an acclaimed fishing captain brilliant at weather-reading and seacraft and consistently brought in the largest catches. In the Arctic seas where drownings occurred with terrifying regularity, she never lost a single crewmember. Renowned for her acute powers of observation, she also solved a notorious crime. In this extremely unequal society, she used the courts to fight for justice for the abused, and in her sixties, embarked on perilous journeys over trackless mountains.

Table contents:

1 Daring to Be Different
2 What Price Survival?
3 Uncertain Territory
4 Compromises of Honor
5 Dark Shadows Amid Joy
6 In the Pale Deep of Swans
7 Naked Wind
8 Reckonings
9 Betrayal Is a Many-Colored Cloak
10 Commanding Turbulence
11 Intimate Blackmail
12 Choices of Consequence
13 The Bitter Bite of Regret
14 Strange Happenings
15 Malice Is a Many-Headed Hydra
16 A Rising Scent of Murder
17 Do Angels Steal?
18 How Does One Know God?
19 In the Belly of the Beast
20 The Devils Are Dancing
21 Stand Proud, Man Alive!
22 Establishing Escapes
23 Fury Unbound
24 Is Peace Possible?
25 Ascending Mountains
26 Fate Listens to No One
27 Fiery Reins of the Sea
28 What Is Home?
29 A Guide for All Seasons
30 Intrepid Traveler
31 The Power of a Simple Scrawl
32 Guardian Angel
33 The Sea At Rest
An Afterword
Acknowledgments
Reading Group Guide
A Conversation with the Author
Notes
References Cited
About the Author

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