Queen of Freedom

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Johnson, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has written many titles for younger readers with a historical setting. Sawbones , a murder mystery set in eighteenth-century London, won the Young Quills Award for Best Historical Fiction 2015. The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo is about a cobbler's daughter from Devon who, in the early nineteenth-century, passed herself off as a Princess from Indonesia. Catherine is half-Jamaican and knows the Blue Mountains well. Klappentext THE THRILLING TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE WOMAN MASTERMINDED SLAVE RESISTANCE to British rule in eighteenth-century Jamaica - part of the True Adventures series 1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. High above the army camps and plantations of the British Empire, a group of ex-slaves - called Maroons are building a new home for themselves. When British soldiers enter the forests to hunt them down, one of the Maroons will lead the fight against them - Queen Nanny, a 'wise woman' with a reputation for ancient obeah magic, and a guerrilla fighter of genius. Under her generalship, her people will make a do-or-die defence of their freedom. Zusammenfassung The thrilling true story of how one woman masterminded slave resistance to British rule in eighteenth-century Jamaica - part of the True Adventures series.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Johnson, Catherine (Author) Johnson, Johnson Catherine
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781782692799
• ISBN: 978-1-78269-279-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 11 mm
• Series: True Adventures
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology; Jamaica, British Empire, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Interest age: from c 9 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, C 1700 To C 1800, c 1700 to c 1709