Woman Who Dared Author:Richard Erdoes Let nobody be deceived by the rapier at my side. Beneath all the swagger I am a woman, feel like a woman, am afraid like a woman, not withstanding that I have learned to take care of myself after a man's fashion. — I have lived a lie. I have acted out a play which had no reality. I am a woman who ran away from a convent, stripped myself of my hab... more »it, cut my hair, and took to adventuring, soldiering, buying and selling, gambling, wandering, slaying, robbing, brawling, lying just in order to feed a false dream I had of myself, driven like a rudderless ship until this moment. Now I am ready to tell you who I really am. A violent, erotic, swashbuckling tale of strange adventure, of a courageous woman who dared all, and conquered all......« less