Women Pirates: Eight Stories of Adventure (Women Adventurers)

Pirates! When you hear the word you probably think of men roaming the high seas, searching for ships to plunder. Yet there were women who sailed and robbed and murdered. Some of the most daring pirates were women. In Women Pirates: Eight Stories of Adventure you will read about the Scandinavian princess Alfhild, Irish Queen Grace O'Malley, the legendary team of Mary Read and Anne Bonny, Chinese warlord Cheng I Sao, ruthless Maria Cobham, and two American pirates of the revolutionary era, Rachel Wall and Fanny Campbell.