Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, on Her Way to Botany Bay
Hardback
Publication Date: 13/09/2010
KEYNOTE: The wildly popular Bloody Jack Adventure series continues Jacky Faber, rich from her exploits diving for Spanish gold, has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic. Believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, Jacky docks in London to take on her crew, but is instead arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia. To add insult to injury, the Lorelei Lee is confiscated to carry Jacky and more than 200 female convicts to populate New South Wales. Not one to give in to self pity, Jacky rallies her sisters to "better" their position--resulting in wild escapades, brushes with danger, and much hilarity. Will Jacky find herself a founding mother of New South Wales, Australia? Not if she has anything to do about it! AUTHOR L. A. Meyer is the award-winning author of the Bloody Jack Adventures, a series praised for its spirited heroine and rousing sense of adventure.The series includes Bloody Jack, Curse of the Blue Tattoo, Under the Jolly Roger, In the Belly of the Bloodhound, Mississippi Jack, My Bonny Light Horseman, Rapture of the Deep, and The Wake of the Lorelei Lee. www.jackyfaber.com AGES 14 + GRADES: Preschool 9 +
- ISBN:
- 9780547327686
- 9780547327686
- Category:
- Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 13-09-2010
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 560
- Dimensions (mm):
- 210x140x35mm
- Weight:
- 0.65kg
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