· The Sea Captain's Wife - Beth Powning Oh, can I tell you how much I loved The Sea Captain's Wife! Azuba is the daughter of a shipwright in 's New Brunswick, Canada. She has grown up around the water and dreams of being a sea captain's wife sailing with her husband around the world. Her dreams seem like they will come true when she marries. Buy The Sea Captain's Wife by Beth Powning online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 4 editions - starting at $ Shop now. Beth Powning’s novel tells of a woman’s life at sea in a very different time – the s – when, as my husband has often remarked, ‘Ships were made of wood and men were made of steel.’ Azuba lives in a small port on the east coast of Canada, and longs to be the kind of sea-captain’s wife who travels with her husband, rather than a woman who sits at home in a dull, safe world, awaiting her man’s return/5(82).
Beth Powning's historical, novel The Sea Captain's Wife (), tells the coming of age - or at least coming to maturity - story of a woman whose youthful romantic notions of what a life at sea might be like run smack into the often harsh reality of this kind of life. Set in mid-nineteenth-century Canada, the novel centers on the main character as she comes to terms with the differences. Click to read more about Descriptions: The Sea Captain's Wife by Beth Powning. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Beth Powning lives in New Brunswick, Canada. She is the author of three novels and three books of literary non-fiction, as well as articles, essays and blog posts. A full-time writer, she teaches workshops, sings in a chorus, serves on boards and committees, makes baskets, gardens, photographs, and keeps chickens. Her latest novel, The Sister's Tale, Read More.
Powning's 19th-century tale of a young woman desperate to live at sea with her captain husband is a grim rather than swooning romance. When Azuba married Nathaniel, she thought that as husband and wife they would exploring the world together on his boat, Traveller. The Sea Captain's Wife by Beth Powning. Publication Date: Febru; Paperback: pages; Publisher: Plume; ISBN ; ISBN Beth Powning’s novel tells of a woman’s life at sea in a very different time – the s – when, as my husband has often remarked, ‘Ships were made of wood and men were made of steel.’ Azuba lives in a small port on the east coast of Canada, and longs to be the kind of sea-captain’s wife who travels with her husband, rather than a woman who sits at home in a dull, safe world, awaiting her man’s return.
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