Booty:
Girl Pirates on the High Seas
by Sara Lorimer
Booty
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LinksFurther Reading - Good Places to Start
There's an oceanful of books about pirates out there; these are a few of my favorites, many of which have pirate women in them:
Carse, Robert. The Age of Piracy. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1957.
Cordingly, David. Under the Black Flag: The Romance and The Reality of Life Among the Pirates. New York: Random House, 1995.
Cordingly, David, ed. Pirates: Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to the South China Sea. North Dighton, Mass: JG Press, 1998.
Ellms, Charles. The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1993. Originally published by Samuel N. Dickinson, 1837.
Esquemeling, John (Exquemelin, A.O.). The Buccaneers of America. First English edition published in 1685.
Gosse, Philip. The Pirates' Who's Who, Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates and Buccaneers. London: Dulau Company, 1924.
Lorimer, Sara. b: Girl Pirates on the High Seas. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002.
Rediker, Marcus. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Stanley, Jo, ed. Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages. San Francisco: Pandora, 1995.
Winston, Alexander. No Man Knows My Grave: Sir Henry Morgan, Captain William Kidd, Captain Woodes Rogers in the Great Age of Privateers and Pirates 1665-1715. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969
Woodbury, George. The Great Days of Piracy in the West Indies. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1951
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