7311831Josiah Perkins Creesy and Eleanor Prentiss Creesy, "Marblehead Legends" 1814-1900https://www.gandhi.com.mx/josiah-perkins-creesy-and-eleanor-prentiss-creesy---marblehead-legends--1814-1900-9798218598570/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6892900/image.jpg?v=638759321329000000195205MXNBookBabyInStock/Ebooks/<p>A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF THE FAMOUS SEAFARING COUPLE FROM MARBLEHEAD This exciting new biography of Josiah Perkins Creesy and Eleanor Prentiss Creesy, fills in the blanks of their life story before and after the record-breaking voyages of the Clipper Ship Flying Cloud. An in-depth look into their private lives from rare journals, letters and memoirs, provides an entirely different perspective on their marriage and personalities. A prestigious ancestral lineage in the fishing and seafaring trades, provided them with privileged educations and strict religious upbringings during the early Temperance Movement. This was sufficient motivation for an adventurous escape from Marblehead, but not without grief and drama from the sudden death of family members, scandals, and a shocking exposé that nearly destroyed Josiahs career. Eleanor kept her own list of secrets, including a traumatic miscarriage in 1851. She was a skilled navigator in the privacy of her cabin, entertained passengers, and cared for the sick and injured, but was often challenged by her husbands stern discipline while bearing witness to racism, slavery, and the barbaric "Coolie Trade" with unimaginable consequences. The couple later retired to a sprawling country estate in Wenham in 1857, until the Civil War recruited Josiah into the Supplemental Navy. His brief service as a Volunteer Lieutenant Commander of the USS Ino, created an "international crisis" that ended with a Court Martial and dismissal from the Navy. Enraged from the humiliation, he abandoned his wife and country and assumed command of the Clipper Ship Archer to restore his reputation in the China Trade. An inflated ego and relentless drive snuffed out his life by age 57. Eleanor remained a widow and lived out her days in Salem until she died in 1900. Decades later, her unassuming role as navigator became a national sensation during the height of the Womens Suffrage Movement when the grandson of an "old guard shipmaster" informed the press that "Mrs. Creesy" took command of the Flying Cloud and brought her safely home from China. Anna Jacke presents a heartwarming and compelling biography that fully explores the reasons why the names of Josiah Perkins Creesy and Eleanor Prentiss Creesy are deeply etched in the annals of American history.</p>...6950407Josiah Perkins Creesy and Eleanor Prentiss Creesy, "Marblehead Legends" 1814-1900195205https://www.gandhi.com.mx/josiah-perkins-creesy-and-eleanor-prentiss-creesy---marblehead-legends--1814-1900-9798218598570/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6892900/image.jpg?v=638759321329000000InStockMXN99999DIEbook2025Inglés