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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781641600552
Year: 2019
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Description:
Age range 12+
Pirates are a perennially popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirates — who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like — is seldom a part of the conversation.
In this Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, A Pirate's Life for She tells the story of sixteen women who through the ages sailed alongside — and sometimes in command of — their male counterparts. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom. History has largely ignored these female swashbucklers, until now.
Author Laura Sook Duncombe also looks beyond the fact that these women are not easy heroines: they are lawbreakers. Rather than defend their illegal actions, A Pirate's Life for She tells their full stories, focusing on the reasons why these women became pirates.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781641600552
Year: 2019
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Description:
Age range 12+
Pirates are a perennially popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirates — who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like — is seldom a part of the conversation.
In this Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, A Pirate's Life for She tells the story of sixteen women who through the ages sailed alongside — and sometimes in command of — their male counterparts. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom. History has largely ignored these female swashbucklers, until now.
Author Laura Sook Duncombe also looks beyond the fact that these women are not easy heroines: they are lawbreakers. Rather than defend their illegal actions, A Pirate's Life for She tells their full stories, focusing on the reasons why these women became pirates.