Challenges and Transitions Shifting Identities

After spending five months ashore with family and friends, Rebecca made the fateful decision to accompany William again, this time on a voyage with no definable destination but San Francisco. The couple embarked on a new, much larger, extreme clipper ship named theChallenger. In this ship William an...

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Published inThe Captain's Widow of Sandwich p. 83
Main Author Shockley, Megan Taylor
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States NYU Press 12.04.2010
New York University Press
Subjects
Applied sciences
Atmospheric circulation
Atmospheric physics
Atmospheric sciences
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Biology
Bodies of water
Christianity
Civil engineering
Cognitive psychology
Death
Developmental biology
Diseases
Earth sciences
Emotion
Emotional states
Engineering
Environmental studies
Gender studies: women
Geography
Geomorphology
Harbors
Health sciences
History of the Americas
Homesickness
Human populations
Life cycle
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Marine engineering
Marine structures
Medical conditions
Meteorological phenomena
Meteorology
Passengers
Persons
Physical sciences
Population studies
Ports
Psychology
Religion
Seas
Ships
Social sciences
Spiritual belief systems
Transportation
Travelers
Vehicles
Watercraft
Weather
Wind
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Summary:After spending five months ashore with family and friends, Rebecca made the fateful decision to accompany William again, this time on a voyage with no definable destination but San Francisco. The couple embarked on a new, much larger, extreme clipper ship named theChallenger. In this ship William and Rebecca traveled from Boston to San Francisco, then on to China, London, and Chile. Rebecca began the voyage with high hopes, but as the months wore on she seemed to face almost nothing but trouble, both on the sea, in her own spiritual life, and with her husband. The way Rebecca
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