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Book Review of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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"A spellbinding tale of intrigue and murder on the high seas," the cover says. And indeed it is. A young girl is the only passenger - and the only female - on a long Atlantic crossing on an 1832 sailing ship with an evil captain and a mutinous crew. Good story.