Las mujeres piratas

There are six chapters into which the Pirate Women (1934), by Henry Musnik, is subdivided. The first one talks about pirate women of the past, like the Gothic Alwilda or the Scandinavian Sigrid la Pridebia. The second is focused on the two queens of piracy from the classical period: Anne Bonney and Mary Read. The third is dedicated to the ineffable Mistress Ching, the very general of the "thieves", a band of cruel pirates who ravaged the China Sea at the beginning of the 19th century. The Djoamis pirates occupy the fourth chapter, which takes us to latitudes near the Gulf of Oman, in the Arabian Peninsula. The fifth chapter is dedicated to the companion of Benito de Soto Aboal, a nineteenth-century Galician pirate about whom Galdós, Castroviejo and Pérez-Reverte have written, among others. The sixth and final chapter glosses the profile of Lai-Cho-San, the pirate woman from Macau, active in the China Sea during the first half of the 20th century. Musnik knows how to present the data he has obtained with efficiency and sympathy. He likes to give the floor to the protagonists of his stories, using for this the narratives, often autobiographical, that have transmitted to us the existence of these queens of the sea that we have all dreamed of at some time.