Seaborne by O'Connor, Nuala -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Praise for Nuala O’Connor Also by Nuala O’Connor Half Title Copyright Title Map Dedication Table of Content Prologue The Blue Rush PART THE FIRST: Kinsale, County Cork, 1703–1705

1 The Sea Welcomes a Sailor 2 The Heft of a Pistol 3 A Game Undone

PART THE SECOND: Berkeley County, Carolina, 1705–1714

1 A Friend Named Bedelia 2 A Thirst for Seawater 3 Of the Soil, Of the Sea 4 Cherish as You Are Cherished 5 A Daughter Not an Enemy 6 The Sway of the Sea

PART THE THIRD: Berkeley County, Carolina, 1718

1 Untwisting the Gnarls 2 Quelling an Unsettled Heart 3 Trysting by the Waccamaw

PART THE FOURTH: Nassau, Providence Island, The Bahamas, 1718–1719

1 Union on the Sea 2 A Welcome on Providence Island 3 A God-sent Boy 99 4 Ever the Dock? 5 A Heart A-spinnaker 6 A Conversation with a Captain 7 Bedelia Has Her Say 8 Captain Rackam Makes a Bold Inquiry 9 A Farewell of Sorts 10 Flesh and Flesh 11 A Person Unmade 144 12 Smoke Like a Warning 148

PART THE FIFTH: The Sea, Cuba and Jamaica, 1720

1 From Tempest to Pewter Mirror 2 A Canny Lot 3 A Compass with a Faulty Needle 4 The Ocean Lies Barren 5 A Stitch in a Larger Garment 183 6 Rare Moments of Light 7 The Air Stirs Viscous 8 Blethered from Lip to Ear 9 Bark Strips and Vine Ribbons 10 Mothering Ways 11 Rancid with Spoiling 12 Destined to Be a Frothy Bundle

PART THE SIXTH: Caribbean Sea and Spanish Towne, Jamaica, 1720–1721

1 A Prize at Last! 235 2 Brethern of the Sea 3 Between the Devil and the Sea 4 The Trials of Captain John Rackam and Other Pirates 5 The Trials of Anne Bonny, alias Bonn, and Mary Read 6 The Months Falter, Settle, Run On and End

Epilogue This Hinter-life Author’s Note Acknowledgements