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.
© 2017 Tantor Media, Inc. (Ljudbok): 9781541478350
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 4 juli 2017
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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.
© 2017 Tantor Media, Inc. (Ljudbok): 9781541478350
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Ljudbok: 4 juli 2017
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Christine
11 okt. 2021
Ok I Read this as interested in history and thought it would be fun to here the story from another angle. Thou I didn't want to here a Long lecture about how females Always are missed out, misstreated or made into something they're not. The author tells stories that easiely gets confused to parts she is fantacising. If you want to learn history, that's just confusing. As is the conection the athour does to People that aren't even slightly pirates. Like there wasn't enough cool girls that acctualy was pirates. Some facts are interesting and I realy hope that someone better does a more accurat and less bitter type of this book. It all enda in a babbeling about films like Thelma and Louise and Verginia Wolf. How much people get for jobs in Hollywood depending om the sex. I'm a women, but I'm not interested in revolution against men. I am interested in history and pirates.
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