Pirates!

the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates

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Celia Rees: Pirates! (2003, Bloomsbury)

379 pages

English language

Published Oct. 20, 2003 by Bloomsbury.

ISBN:
978-1-58234-816-2
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In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

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Subjects

  • Pirates -- Fiction
  • Blacks -- Jamaica -- Fiction
  • Slavery -- Fiction
  • Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
  • Sea stories
  • Jamaica -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction