Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate Kindle Edition

The story of Anne Bonny is one of history’s most fascinating tales. As the most infamous women to disguise herself as a man to pirate the high seas of the Caribbean. The true story of her life is in fact much more interesting, and Phillip Thomas Tucker presents a detailed new version in his book, “Anne Bonny, The Infamous Female Pirate.” Drawing on the 1724 accounts of her life from Captain Charles Johnson, Bonny has earned a place in history alongside her violent, blood thirsty male counterparts among the pirate lore.Thomas Tucker portrays her as the typical 1700s era women, who wanted anything other than the atypical lifestyle of her era. She saw the pirate, maybe male, lifestyle as free and liberating compared to the drudgery of female subjugation. The author notes within pirate culture, greater freedoms were available to typically oppressed minority groups. As a refuge of minorities and criminals, the pirate lifestyle attracted many seeking a greater deal of freedom.A fascinating read of pirate and sub-political culture of the 18th century, and the struggles of the classes’ among them. This book is a great combination of history, pirate lore, and feminist struggles all scattered among the violence of the high seas.

Anne Bonny the Infamous Female Pirate is the story of a bold woman of the 18th Century who dared to join the legions of male pirates across the high seas. Author Philip Tucker Thomas makes an earnest attempt to tell her story with what little documented information is available. He spends a lot of time sharing the history of piracy and other known events related to the days that Anne Bonney served as a pirate.What is known is that Anne Bonny was born in Kinsale, Ireland to a married attorney named William Cormac and his family maid, Mary Brennan. To escape the disgrace of her illegitimate birth, Cormac, young Anne and her mother immigrated to what is now known as Charleston, South Carolina. Following her mother's death, Anne defied her father and married a man named John Bonny then moved to Nassau, Bahamas. At some point she tired of her husband and his ways then became captivated with Captain Jack "Calico" Markham. Calico Jack as some people called him was equally taken with Anne. The well dressed and well mannered Calico Jack had earned a reputation in the world of piracy. It is uncertain what caused Anne to decide to disguise herself as a male pirate in their standard garb, but she was invited to become a crewmember and a permanent part of Calico's Jack's life who apparently was aware of her sex.While we don't don't know everything that occurred while Anne was at sea, it was revealed that she was pregnant with Calico's child. For several months she stayed hidden away in Cuba to give birth. Soon after she rejoined the crew. Time after time they robbed merchant vessels of their goods, money, and food also known as "pirate's booty".To fill in the gaps of Anne's high seas escapades, the author shares the stories of Blackbeard and Jack Morgan who also robbed their share of "booty" along with ships carrying slaves. Sometimes freeing them and adding them to their crews. Collusion between pirates government officials occurred often. The governors would sign pardons in exchange for money and/or goods. Many pirates continued on as sea robbers in spite of their pardons angering officials.By 1719 Calico Jack and his crew were taking too many risks. In 1720 Anne Bonny was proclaimed an enemy of the Crown of England along with Calico Jack. When they dared to steal a boat owned by a very important person a warrant of sorts had been issued for their arrest by the governor of Nassau, Bahamas. Eventually, they were captured, but not without a fight on the part of Anne Bonny a another female pirate, Mary Read. Some of the most fascinating parts of the book happened to be the action that took place during their capture and the trials that followed.The author opens the reader's imagination as he regaled us with stories of life on the high seas. He also paints a picture of an unusual allegiance among Anne and her fellow crewmembers. The book was written in a way that may pique the reader's curiosity urging them to want to learn more about Anne Bonny and other infamous pirates.

The story of Anne Bonny is wonderful and intereging, but by nature we know little of it. She lived so long ago and so much of what we would know is lost to time and pirates lack of records. This author however filles in the gaps with mear opinion and speculation. He spends nearly all of the first chapter blabbing about non-essential, misguided, feminism and how great Ireland is. We get that the gender politics of the time are important to understand her life but we don't need 6 pages of you telling us that! The rest of the book is spent blabbing about Ireland and assuming her life. He goes on and on about stories she might have heard as a kid, or about how her husband might have been abusive but "we have no evedence to say if he was or wasn't" is literally a quote from right before Tucker goes on to tell us about how she ran away from her abusive account.For a book whose preface is about how most tales of Anne are sensationalised and untrue he does an aweful lot of fluff work.Would not recommend this book to anyone trying to get an accurate account of this amazing women's life.

This book provides an extensive bibliography to support many of the facts. The author is clear with regard to speculations and offers a number of scenarios for the tales that have come down in the ages. It is a book that I will use in my own reference.

The overuse of the terms "free-spirited", "outspoken" and "unconventional" before you are far into the first chapter, as well as the continual condemnation of European "patriarchal" society distracts greatly from any historical value this book might hold. There seems an attempt to paint Anne Bonny as a modern post feminist hero before her time, eager to break the shackles of the aforementioned patriarchal society rather than recording the known and suspected events of her life.After finishing the tedious introduction, I had hoped the author had his disdain for the society of the past out of his system, but it continues in the following chapter unabated.

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Interesting basic history, worth reading.

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