![]() ![]() Using her own fortune, she builds a fleet of warships. She brings the battle for freedom to the door of the Sultan’s palace, winning help from a highly unlikely ally to whom she makes a momentous promise. Lascarina passes into history with the name Bouboulina. ![]() In addition, she discovers that, for one young man with an independent mind, a troublesome reputation is no obstacle to friendship. The lessons Lascarina learns when she competes in a hard-fought sailing race will stand her in good stead all her life. Worse yet, Lascarina possesses skills considered highly improper for a girl she is a brilliant sailor and can read and write. Lascarina is the subject of much gossip no one in her small village knows who her father is, and Lascarina’s mother takes care to guard this secret even from her own daughter. The book opens in 1786, at a fateful moment in the life of the fifteen-year-old Lascarina Lazarou. It transports the reader to the seemingly quiet island of Spetses, then a remote corner of the Ottoman Empire, where dreams of freedom still lived in the hearts of the Sultan’s Greek subjects. This historical novel about Lascarina Bouboulis and her role in the Greek War for Independence is inspired by the life of a woman who earned the title of ‘Admiral’ in the Greek navy. ![]()
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