MM Suarez’s Reviews > The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World > Status Update
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"Above all, a clipper captain’s responsibility was to get his cargo safely from one port to the other, in the fastest time possible, and without making any unscheduled stops where import and custom duties or port charges would eat up the profit margins on which both he and the ship’s owners depended."
— Dec 14, 2025 07:22AM
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"A modern reader can only shudder at our countrymen’s and countrywomen’s familiarity with death in the 1850s." 😢
— Dec 16, 2025 05:35AM
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Below 40° S there is no law; below 50° S there is no God. —Sailors’ maxim
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"We know that Mary Ann learned to read and do sums and that she had a quick intelligence because, had she not, a few years later in a storm at the bottom of the world, her story and the story of all those aboard Neptune’s Car would have ended in a different kind of disaster."
— Dec 13, 2025 10:41AM
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"We know that Mary Ann learned to read and do sums and that she had a quick intelligence because, had she not, a few years later in a storm at the bottom of the world, her story and the story of all those aboard Neptune’s Car would have ended in a different kind of disaster."
— Dec 13, 2025 10:40AM
