The Pirate Queen - by Barbara Sjoholm (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Sjoholm brings back to life some extraordinary swashbuckling tales of women of the sea, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey in this meticulously researched, colorfully written, and truly original work. Also included are illustrations and maps.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The Pirate Queen begins in Ireland with the notorious Grace O'Malley, a scourge to the most powerful fleets of sixteenth-century Europe. This Irish clan chieftain and pirate queen was a contemporary of Elizabeth I, and a figure whose life is the stuff of myth. Regularly raiding English ships caught off Ireland's west coast, O'Malley purportedly fought off fierce Algerian pirates just hours after giving birth to her son. She commanded two hundred men (and a couple of husbands), and acquired lands and castles that still dot the Irish coastline today. But O'Malley was not alone, especially in the waters of the North Atlantic where author Barbara Sjoholm traveled through coastal communities and seafaring ports to collect these little-known stories. Since ancient times, women have rowed and sailed, commanded and fished, built boats and owned fleets. Yet their incredible contributions have been nearly erased from the history books, as have the myths of seal women, Finn wives, and storm witches. In The Pirate Queen, Sjoholm brings some of these extraordinary stories back to life, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey in this meticulously researched, colorfully written, and truly original work. Illustrations and maps add to these intriguing swashbuckling tales <br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Barbara Sjoholm is the author, as Barbara Wilson, of the PEN Award-nominated memoir Blue Windows and the editor of the recently released Steady as She Goes: Women's Adventures at Sea. Her essays and travel narratives have appeared in The American Scholar, the North American Review, the New York Times, and Smithsonian. She lives in Seattle.<br>
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