Bold in Her Breeches

Bold in Her Breeches
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Publisher : Rivers Oram Press
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015033970024
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Book Synopsis Bold in Her Breeches by : Jo Stanley

Download or read book Bold in Her Breeches written by Jo Stanley and published by Rivers Oram Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold in her Breeches takes a wholly fresh look at these mythical figures and places them in their true historical and cultural contexts. From Artemisia to the contemporary women pirates of today, via eighteenth-century Grace O'Malley and nineteenth-century Cheng I Sao, we learn why women took to piracy, what it was actually like, how they were regarded by people of their own time and what history has done to their stories.


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