2022/095: On Wilder Seas -- Nikki Marmery

2022/095: On Wilder Seas -- Nikki Marmery

They think I am a thing they have stolen. Like the silver and the grain and the charts, and the roteiro guides, and everything else they take from the Spaniards. Rather have I stolen myself. [loc. 383]

This fictionalised account of 'Maria', the only woman known to have sailed on Drake's Golden Hind, was inspired by a single line in an anonymous account of Drake's circumnavigation, 1577-80. ( Read more... )