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
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
Credits 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
Last Update Oct 24, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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