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Title: Pirate Queen: The life of Grace O’Malley
Author: COOK JUDITH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/08/2021
Imprint: BIRLINN LTD
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plundering, kidnapping, murder and mayhem came to a close in 1586, when she was captured and sentenced to hang.
Saved from the scaffold by none other than Queen Elizabeth herself another powerful woman in a man s world Grace s life took another extraordinary turn, when it was rumoured she had become intelligencer for the queen s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham. Was this the price of her freedom?
Judith Cook explores this and other questions about the life and times of this remarkable woman in a fascinating, thrilling and impeccably researched book.
ISBN: 9781780277158
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm