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Born for Adventure: The Seafaring Life of Frances C.B. Amesbury
In the late 1800s, Frances Carleton Brastow Amesbury captured life aboard a sailing vessel heading to China through her five-line-a-day journal entries and her own photography.
Frances is the great aunt of Barbara Brastow Semple, our presenter. Through Barbara’s reading of her great aunt’s 15 years of journals, as well as several books and diaries by other women of that era, she has put together a travelogue highlighting women’s voyages at sea, with an emphasis on Frances Amesbury’s experiences sailing the high seas around the world.