Set in the 1860's, Powning gives us a view of how life was for the wives who stayed behind while their sea faring husband captains went to sea for months or years at a time. We also get a good view of life at sea and how perilous it was for those in the trading industry.
Azuba Galloway-Bradstock was a likable character. Married young to wealthy parents, she married well. Sometimes I thought she had some good introspective thoughts, but a lot of the time she really got on my nerves with her naivete. How many situations could she get herself into that she refused to see the implications of her actions? I felt bad for her husband throughout the book because she was completely oblivious to what she was doing to him.
There isn't much to analyze in this book. Powning has a nice writing style and many of her passages allowed me to see and feel what it was like during a storm going around Cape Horn. She did a great job helping me to identify with the desolation at sea, the joy at seeing land, the simple awe of the weather, and the fear of things that we cannot control.
Overall, this was a good read.
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