488 pages
English language
Published Oct. 20, 2004 by Thorndike Press.
Pirates!
the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates
by Celia Rees
4 stars
(5 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Large type books.
- Pirates -- Fiction.
- Blacks -- Jamaica -- Fiction.
- Slavery -- Fiction.
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
- Sea stories.
- Large type books.
- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.