They're Cows, We're Pigs
A dark, thought-provoking adventure that artfully evokes the blood-soaked reality of 17th-century pirates (Entertainment Weekly).This wryly humorous, satiric, and often macabre novel (Library Journal) follows Jean Smeeks, a Flemish thirteen-year-old who signs up as an indentured servant with the French West Indies Company, but instead winds up a slave on the notorious island of Tortuga. Over time, he learns the arts of herbal medicine and surgery-a skill that allows him to join a band of Caribbean pirates. Contrasting Jean's romantic pull toward the Brethren of the Coast-an all-male society pursuing socialist, anti-colonialist ideals-with the…
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Weitere Autoren: Chambers, Leland H. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-55584-603-9
- EAN: 9781555846039
- Produktnummer: 21832642
- Verlag: Grove Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 196 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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