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Charlotte Badger: A Convict's Odyssey
Paperback
Series: Pirate Women, Book 24
General Juvenile FictionHistory
Publisher: Mandolin Books
Published: May 15 2026
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
History remembers pirates as men of violence and ambition. Yet hidden among the legends of the sea are stories far stranger, and far more human.
Charlotte Badger was born into poverty in England in 1778, a young woman raised beneath the harsh justice of the Bloody Code where a single mistake could mean the gallows. When a misunderstanding led to her conviction for theft, Charlotte was sentenced to transportation across the world to the penal colony of New South Wales. The journey was meant to end her life as she knew it. Instead, it was only the beginning.
In the distant colonies of Australia, Charlotte struggled to rebuild her life among convicts, soldiers, and settlers on the edge of a growing empire. There she found friendship, loss, and brief moments of hope. But fate would carry her even farther from safety when she boarded the schooner Venus in 1806-only to find herself trapped in one of the most infamous maritime mutinies in Pacific history.
Abandoned in New Zealand, surrounded by unfamiliar lands and peoples, Charlotte's story becomes one of endurance beyond imagination. Illness, betrayal, death, and rumor follow her across oceans and decades, leaving behind a legend that history would later twist into myth.
Was she a pirate? Or was she something far rarer: a survivor.
Charlotte Badger: A Convict's Odyssey is a sweeping historical adventure drawn from the real events behind one of the most mysterious figures in maritime folklore. From the prisons of England to the penal colonies of Australia, from the mutiny of the Venus to the remote shores of New Zealand, this powerful story reveals the life behind the legend.
Included at the end of the book is a real historical timeline of Charlotte Badger's life, helping separate documented fact from the myths that have grown around her name for more than two centuries.
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