Pirate Women
Pirate Women In the first-ever comprehensive survey of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women tells of the women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside--and sometimes in…
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Pirate Women
In the first-ever comprehensive survey of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women tells of the women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside--and sometimes in command of--their male counterparts. History has largely ignored these female swashbucklers, until now. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom.
Author Laura Sook Duncombe also looks beyond the stories to the storytellers and mythmakers. Here are their stories, from ancient Norse warriors like Awilda, Stikla, and Rusla; to Sayyida al-Hurra of the Barbary corsairs; from Grace O'Malley, who terrorized shipping operations around the British Isles; to Cheng I Sao, who commanded a fleet of 400 ships off China in the early 19th century. What biases and agendas motivated them?
What did they leave out? Pirate Women explores why and how these