The pirate queen: in search of Grace O'Malley and other legendary women of the sea

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""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations ""; ""Introduction: Crossing Clew Bay ""; ""I. Grace O'Malley's Castle: Clare Island, Ireland ""; ""II. The Pirate Queen: Clew Bay, Ireland ""; ""III. At the Edge of the Sea Cauldron: From Oban to the Pentland Firth""; ""IV. Raising the Wind: Kirkwall, the Orkney Islands""; ""V. Herring Lassies: Stronsay, the Orkney Islands""; ""VI. A Man's World: Stromness, the Orkney Islands""; ""VII. Enchantment: From the Orkney Islands to the Shetland Islands""; ""VIII. The Lonely Voyage of Betty Mouat: Sumburgh Head, the Shetland Islands"";Co-founder of Seal Press, Barbara Sjoholm has spent most of her life in the literary arts, as a writer, editor, translator, teacher, and publisher. She is the author of Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood, , Incognito Street, , and The Pirate Queen , and editor of the anthology Steady as She Goes: Women's Adventures at Sea. Barbara's personal and travel essays have appeared in the Harvard Review, the American Scholar, and the Antioch Review, as well as the New York Times, Slate, and Smithsonian.