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Booty

Girl Pirates on the High Seas By Sara Lorimer
Illustrated by Susan Synarski

7-1/4 x 8-1/4 in; 112 pp ; full-color illustrations throughout
Paperback
Published in January, 2002
ISBN 0811832376
ISBN13 9780811832373
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$16.95  

Booty -- A treasure trove of high adventure and bad behavior, Booty tells the all-true tales of real women pirates who prowled the seas from the 9th to early-20th centuries in search of easy prey and easy profit. Raiding ships, boozing, brawling, and looting, they struck terror in the hearts of men from the Mediterranean to the South China Sea to the rivers of New York. Meet Rachel Wall, who traded her devout religious upbringing for "lewd and wicked company"; Cheng I Sao, who led a fleet of 2,000 ships and made her men drink cocktails of wine and gunpowder; Mary Read, who killed one pirate for the love of another; and Sadie the Goat, who headbutted her victims before fleecing them of cash. Their exploits and those of many more swashbuckling women fill these pages, along with salty illustrations and an informative look at the finer points of pirate life (grog, flogging, fashion, and more). Arrrrr.

Sara Lorimer ’s travels have taken her to regions ranging from Fiji to the Arctic Circle. She now lives in New York City.

Susan Synarski ’s illustrations have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, the Boston Globe, and other periodicals, and are featured in Rolling Stone: The Illustrated Portraits (also by Chronicle Books). She lives in Oakland, California.

Visit her Web site at: www.synarski.com.