Nancy Pagh has altered the course of nautical traditionalism with her book . . . At Home Afloat is a lively, intelligent analysis of, if you will forgive the pun, heretofore uncharted waters.

-Lorna Hutchinson, Canadian Literature

This is a very original book. No one has looked at the materials Pagh explores; her primary background reading is terrific. But more impressive is the way she moves beyond merely introducing her reader to a series of interesting women and texts. She has a strong central thesis, one that intersects with a whole tradition of works in women's studies, and she twists and turns that thesis in relation to more contemporary work like post-colonial studies and anthropology in the chapter on imaginary Indians and ecocriticism in the chapter on women and culture.

-Melody Graulich, professor of English, Utah State University

The work is a mistress-piece of lean and personable prose. It will set the precedent for all future books on the social/spatial place of women at sea.

-Jo Stanley, Gender and History

We are so accustomed to thinking only of ?the men who go down to sea in ships? that we have overlooked the very different experiences of seagoing women. Nancy Paugh's book corrects our vision, showing how the stud of women afloat in Pacific Northwest waters reveals the gendered nature of seafaring.

-Sue Armitage, Editor, Frontiers