Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution by Ballou
"Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution" by Maturin Murray Ballou is a novel published in 1844. When her fiancé is seized and imprisoned aboard a British ship bound for Cuba, young Fanny Campbell disguises herself as a man to rescue him. Taking the name Channing, she signs on as a deckhand, foments a mutiny, and seizes command of the vessel. What begins as a daring rescue mission
transforms into high-seas adventure as Campbell leads her crew through battles and captures during the Revolutionary War era. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray), 1820-1895 |
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| Title | Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Campbell,_the_Female_Pirate_Captain |
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Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by the Internet Archive |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 72.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Sea stories |
| Subject | War stories |
| Subject | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Women pirates -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 47430 |
| Release Date | Nov 22, 2014 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 24, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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