Pirate Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pirate Women write by Laura Sook Duncombe. This book was released on 2017-04-01. Pirate Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first-ever Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, 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. Here are their stories, from ancient Norse princess Alfhild and warrior Rusla to Sayyida al-Hurra of the Barbary corsairs; from Grace O'Malley, who terrorized shipping operations around the British Isles during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; to Cheng I Sao, who commanded a fleet of four hundred ships off China in the early nineteenth century. Author Laura Sook Duncombe also looks beyond the stories to the storytellers and mythmakers. What biases and agendas motivated them? What did they leave out? Pirate Women explores why and how these stories are told and passed down, and how history changes depending on who is recording it. It's the most comprehensive overview of women pirates in one volume and chock-full of swashbuckling adventures that pull these unique women from the shadows into the spotlight that they deserve.
Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger
Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger write by Ulrike Klausmann. This book was released on 1997. Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An account of piracy through three millenia, in histories of women and men sailing on four seas. Writing with passion and humour, but without romanticizing or ignoring the unsavory side of some of their heroines, the authors turn history on its head."--BOOK JACKET.
Daring Pirate Women
Daring Pirate Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Daring Pirate Women write by Anne Wallace Sharp. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Daring Pirate Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Profiles pirates throughout history, especially women pirates of Europe, America, and Asia, such as Princess Alvilda, Ingean Ruadh, Grany Imallye, Elizabeth Killegrew, Anne Bonny, and Lai Cho San.
Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate
Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate write by Phillip Thomas Tucker. This book was released on 2017-08-22. Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of the most famous female pirate in history provides a remarkable personal odyssey from a time when women were almost powerless and at the lowest level of the social order on both sides of the Atlantic. This new biographical work fills considerable gaps in Anne Bonny’s life beyond her mythology to rescue an actual person for posterity. After turning her back on everything she knew growing up in South Carolina to find a sense of personal freedom, Anne Bonny sailed the Caribbean’s pristine waters during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century. Few accurate records exist about these law-breakers, whose lifestyles called for hanging. Fortunately, Anne Bonny was a notable exception to the rule, as she was caught off the Jamaican coast and tried by a court of law, whose records have fortunately survived. So, who was the real Anne Bonny? A heartless prostitute, a bloodthirsty psychopathic, or a compassionate woman of faith and courage? Such a fundamental question has not been adequately answered by historians for 300 years. It is now time to take a fresh look at the life of Anne Bonny to present a corrective view into not only her story but also the seldom explored, but incredibly rich, field of women’s history. The Anne Bonny mythology is today popularly told in Starz channel’s Black Sails and the video game Assassin's Creed.
Bold in Her Breeches
Bold in Her Breeches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bold in Her Breeches write by Jo Stanley. This book was released on 1995. Bold in Her Breeches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bold in her Breeches takes a wholly fresh look at these mythical figures and places them in their true historical and cultural contexts. From Artemisia to the contemporary women pirates of today, via eighteenth-century Grace O'Malley and nineteenth-century Cheng I Sao, we learn why women took to piracy, what it was actually like, how they were regarded by people of their own time and what history has done to their stories.
