Daring Pirate WomenLerner Publications and the A&E Television Networks have teamed up to create Biography for young readers. With highly accessible text and engaging photographs, this engrossing collection offers in-depth profiles of some of the world's most interesting figures. Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Grace O'Malley were some of the most notorious and ruthless pirates to have sailed the seas to kill and plunder. In this swashbuckling tale, look beyond the legends that surround these and other pirate women. |
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Contents
Dreams of Adventure | 7 |
Three Viking Princesses | 21 |
Anne Bonny Mary Read and | 49 |
The Pirate Empires of China | 83 |
Pirate Music | 106 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Daring Pirate Women Biography (A & E) Biography (Lerner Hardcover) Biography (Lerner Publications Company) Biography Series |
| Author | Anne Wallace Sharp |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0822500310, 9780822500315 |
| Length | 112 pages |
| Subjects | › › Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Historical |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |