Resumen de La isla de Peak: una novela de los días de los bucaneros

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You will love this book if you enjoy castles with secrets, shipwreck and survival, old-fashioned romance, gentle heroines who act with courage, and friendship between women.

De qué trata este libro

Picture a beach strewn with wreckage and bodies. It is September 1607, and a gale has smashed two ships against the rocks. The Queen Elizabeth, bound for the colony of Virginia, splits open on a cliff. High among the stones lies a young woman in deep mourning, cut, cold and soaked through. She does not want to be rescued.

Peak's Island: A Romance of Buccaneer Days is a novel by Anna W. Ford Piper. It follows Anna Vyvyan, an English heiress sailing for Virginia. You get a stone castle crammed with pirate treasure, a fierce woman who guards a mound with a rusty sword, a golden-haired child who speaks in her own baby words, and a friendship that keeps three people alive far from home.

Questions about La isla de Peak: una novela de los días de los bucaneros

What is Peak's Island about?

It follows Anna Vyvyan, an English heiress shipwrecked in 1607 on a forested island. She saves Mrs. Ada Carleton and her small daughter Cora, and the three make a home in an old castle full of buccaneer treasure.

Who is Louisita in Peak's Island?

Louisita is a Spanish woman who lives alone in a mound on the island. Once a lady's maid to Donna Inez, she tells the shipwrecked women the castle's history and blames men for her sorrows.

Is Peak's Island a true story?

It is a romance, a work of fiction, though it uses real settings such as 1607, the colony of Virginia and the age of buccaneers. It mentions figures like Orlando Gibbons and Captain John Smith only in passing.

What does Anna be back mean in the book?

It is Cora's own baby way of saying come back. The women never correct it, and it grows into a sign of the love that ties the three of them together.

Is Peak's Island easy to read?

It has short scenes, clear dialogue and a warm narrator. Each chapter opens with a few lines of verse, and the adventure keeps moving through the castle, the beach and the forest.