Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas - Couverture souple

Lorimer, Sara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811832376 ISBN 13 : 9780811832373

Editeur : Chronicle Books, 2002

Synopsis

A treasure trove of high adventure and bad behavior, Booty tells the all-true tales of real women pirates who prowled the seas from the 9th to early-20th centuries in search of easy prey and easy profit. Raiding ships, boozing, brawling, and looting, they struck terror in the hearts of men from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea to the rivers of New York. Meet Rachel Wall, who traded her devout religious upbringing for 'lewd and wicked company'; Cheng I Sao, who led a fleet of 2,000 ships and made her men drink cocktails of wine and gunpowder; Mary Read, who killed one pirate for the love of another; and Sadie the Goat, who headbutted her victims before fleecing them of cash. Their exploits and those of many more swashbuckling women fill these pages, along with salty illustrations and an informative look at the finer points of pirate life (grog, flogging, fashion, and more). Arrrrr.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sara Lorimer s travels have taken her to regions ranging from Fiji to the Arctic Circle. She now lives in New York City.

Susan Synarski s illustrations have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, the Boston Globe, and other periodicals, and are featured in Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits (also by Chronicle Books). She lives in Oakland, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chronicle Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811832376
• ISBN 13: 9780811832373
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Synarski Susan
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Andreas Meier; 22029659400; info@rheinberg-buch.de; ; De Gasperi str. 8; Bergisch gladbach; 51427; Allemagne