- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List (1 Jan 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0044408927
- ISBN-13: 978-0044408925
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.7 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The world of piracy has traditionally been seen as the preserve of men. This book reveals the extent to which women have been involved in piracy, skulduggery and seafaring over the centuries. This book is divided into several parts. Anne Chambers looks at how women of privilege have embraced life at sea; Julie Wheelwright, author of "Amazons and Military Maids", looks at life at sea for penniless women such as the legendary lovers Mary Read and Anne Bonny; Delei Davin explores the tradition of Chinese women warriors at sea, and Dea Birkett examines what women pirates are doing today.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Is this one of the worst books ever published,
By Samuel Romilly (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages (Hardcover)
Bold it certainly is, creating a rich tapestry of conjecture, unsullied and unrestrained by facts. This is one of the most execrable pieces of purported history I have come across, and I have come across quite a few. If there is no evidence for an assertion however outlandish, assert it nonetheless, claim that it must have been so, and so it was so. Turgid in style, tepid in content, inane in analysis. Do not read it, other than for laughs - it did provoke quite a few not just from me but from friends to whom I gleefully read extracts- and do not buy it. I did, alas.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic,very informative and revealing about the past.,
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This review is from: Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages (Hardcover)
The book is eazy to folow and backed with thought and evedence.
Inciteful into the true history not just what we learn from a 8th grade text book.
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