Joseph, Wendy

Wendy Joseph vies with her characters for a life of romance and adventure. A deckhand on merchant ships, she has outrun pirates off of Somalia, steered ships large and small through hurricanes and typhoons from the Bering Sea to Singapore, and helped rescue seals on the Pacific coast. Believing history must be lived, she has crewed the 18th century square-rigger Lady Washington and the WWII freighter SS Lane Victory. She has shared her food with starving cats and third world workers. She sings sea shanties, her own songs, and with classical and medieval choirs. Her passion is for works of the