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| Author | Jackie French |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical fiction, children's literature |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | 2002 |
The White Ship is a 2002 novel by Australian children's author Jackie French. The White Ship follows the journey of a group of Protestant children who are forced to flee their home, an island off the coast of France, upon a defecting warship known as "The White Ship" in 1572, after Catherine de' Medici orders the deaths of all French Huguenots.