title: Barefoot Pirate: The Tall Ships and Tales of Windjammer
author: Robert W. Schachner
description: "A gorgeous coffee-table book . . . the next best thing to a Windjammer cruise." --<i>The Palm Beach Post, 11/30/03</i>
zlib_text: _**Lady Pirate**_
  
   **Lynsay Sands**
  
   **Contents**
  
  > _Prologue_  
  >  _Chapter One_  
  >  _Chapter Two_  
  >  _Chapter Three_  
  >  _Chapter Four_  
  >  _Chapter Five_  
  >  _Chapter Six_  
  >  _Chapter Seven_  
  >  _Chapter Eight_  
  >  _Chapter Nine_  
  >  _Chapter Ten_  
  >  _Chapter Eleven_  
  >  _Chapter Twelve_  
  >  _Chapter Thirteen_  
  >  _Chapter Fourteen_  
  >  _Chapter Fifteen_  
  >  _Chapter Sixteen_  
  >  _Chapter Seventeen_  
  >  _Chapter Eighteen_  
  >
  
  ******_Prologue_** ****
  
  _The Caribbean—late 1700s_
  
    
  
  The water was flat as a looking glass, capturing the moonlight and stars that
  twinkled down from above and reflecting just enough light that the ship
  gliding ahead of them appeared black and ghostlike in the darkness.
  
  From her position at the front of the small dugout canoe in which she rode,
  Valoree motioned, and the men at the oars immediately slowed their rowing. At
  another signal, the sailors raised their oars out of the water, and the craft
  slid silently up beside the larger 