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Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Catherine Johnson
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Series | True Adventures |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:128 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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ISBN/Barcode |
9781782692799
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Classifications | Dewey:972.92033092 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Pushkin Children's Books
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Imprint |
Pushkin Children's Books
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Publication Date |
6 August 2020 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. In the sweltering heat Captain Shettlewood leads a troop of British soldiers through the thick trees towards the river. They are hunting slaves who have escaped from the brutal plantations. Their mission: to find them, and kill them. But up ahead, hidden among the rocks above the water, a group of men with cutlasses and muskets wait patiently for the instructions of their leader. Queen Nanny is a 'wise woman' with a reputation for ancient obeah magic, and a guerilla fighter with a genius for organisation. So the battle for Jamaica begins, the First Maroon War, in which the maroons - escaped slaves - will make a final, do-or-die stand against the slavers and soldiers of Empire.
Author Biography
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.
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