Cole asked with a forced grin . “ Only with you , " Juan answered . “ Treasure does not interest me . " Cole was spared the need to say more when the bartender plunked his second beer in front of him , and in the next instant Cueball ...
These are the remarkable stories of women who took control of their own destinies in a world where the odds were against them, empowering young women to reach for their own dreams.
The English victory was due partly to a key participant in the Battle of Gravelines: Sir Francis Drake, one of Queen Elizabeth's most famous sea dogs. He was a cousin of another sea dog, Sir John Hawkins, who got him into the business.
But when her ship is waylaid by pirates, Gwen must join with the flashy and dangerous Captain Lady Rackham if she hopes to save her betrothed-and avoid dying by hangman's noose, or at the hands of Blackbeard himself.
Comedy of the subgenre called swashbuckling A horror story A romance story A short story
With such breathtaking literary swashbuckling, Lady Morgan was still considered a controversial and consequently commercial author, and she sold the work for £1,000, not to Colburn but to the rival firm of Saunders and Otley.
The most approved and attractive of the female villains are thieves rather than killers and, in Countess Rossakoff and Lady Bess Sedgewick, Christie constructs mature and swashbuckling women characters who earn the detectives' and the ...
By the 18403 swashbuckling women heroines multiplied. In 1845, Maturin Murray Ballou published Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain, the fictional biography of a woman privateer of the American Revolution.
50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History Erika Owen. Smyth, Mitchell. ... Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction and Film. ... Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American West.
However she might condemn the wicked swashbuckling women, like Milton she appears to have been on the side of energy, giving especial life to what she herself avowedly disapproved. Indeed she is closest in her authorial self-image to ...
This collection offers excerpts from the works of contemporary authors: Patrick O'Brian's riveting account of a sea battle with Borneo's pirates will enthrall his fans; Farley Mowat's The Black Joke is a rousing adventure of the rum-running ...