The Revolution & The Revolution II Two Book Special

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Buy both books for $11 each with free shipping and signed by the author and gift wrapped if requested. This is a limited time special!

The Revolution: Captain, Pirate, Heroine

In the mid-1840s, a best-selling novel, ‘Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution’ written by Maturin Murray Ballou took the country by storm. It sold more than 75,000 copies for a quarter each and marked the first time that a book centered on a literary heroine who took charge of her own life. Fanny Campbell inspired many girls of the Nineteenth Century including Michigan’s own Sarah Emma Edmonds who, at the onset of the Civil War, disguised herself as a man and joined the Union Army. Likewise, Maud Buckley, the widow of a sea captain, was also stirred enough to get her own captain’s license and sail the Great Lakes in the 1870s on her very own schooner, which she christened ‘The Fanny Campbell’.

Now it’s time for a new generation to be inspired by Fanny’s bravado and daring. In the second book they have coauthored, Debra Ann Pawlak and Cheryl Bartlam Du Bois have once again brought to life a heroine for the ages, retelling her story for the modern reader.

The Revolution II: Seer, Spy, Heroine

The tale unfolds against the dramatic backdrop of the Revolutionary War and focuses on the life of the legendary Moll Pitcher, a world-renowned seer who was often referred to as the Psychic of Lynn.

Seafaring men consulted her before embarking on their journeys while British officers often visited her home in Lynn, Massachusetts asking about their fate in upcoming battles.

Pitcher portrays herself as a Loyalist when she was really a spy for General Washington, reporting back to the Sons of Liberty any information these Redcoats disclosed. A favorite of Lady Martha Washington, she warned about the battles at Lexington and Concord, as well as Bunker Hill.

Pitcher also hid munitions seized by the privateers, retrieving them when needed by the Continental Army and worked closely with her contemporaries such as General John Glover, along with her friends Fanny Campbell and William Lovell.

The excitement grows with each and every amazing prediction and thrilling sea battle!