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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Pirates are an enduring, popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirate women -- who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like -- is seldom a part of the conversation. A Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, A Pirate's Life for She tells the stories of 16 women through the ages who sailed alongside -- and sometimes in command of -- their male counterparts....
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the early 1800s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng Yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she got an equal share of his business. When her husband died six years later, she took command of the fleet. Over the next decade, the pirate queen built a fleet of over 1,800 ships and 70,000 men. On land...
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