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Twenty-eight firsthand memoirs and contemporary reports of some of history's most infamous pirates covers the sixteenth-century Caribbean buccaneers through more recent periods and includes profiles of such figures as Blackbeard, Captain ... | | |
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Richard Sanders
" As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier. 16 pp. of photos. Maps. From the Hardcover edition. | | |
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Laurie R. King
Sent to Lisbon and Morocco, where a British movie studio is filming a remake of The Pirates of Penzance, Mary Russell investigates a series of crimes targeting the production and confronts a high-stakes situation when actual pirates ... | | |
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Benerson Little
Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on how pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. | | |
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Michael Crichton
English Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians sail from colonial Jamaica to infiltate a Spanish-controlled port, commandeering the galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle. | | |
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Richard Zacks
Describes the 1805 secret mission, reluctantly sanctioned by Thomas Jefferson and led by William Eaton, to stop the Barbary pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, revealing how a ragtag group of men, aided by a band of ... | | |
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Donald G. Shomette
A DAZZLING ARRAY OF SWASHBUCKLING PIRATES, PICAROONS, AND SEA ROVERS PITTED AGAINST THE OFTEN FECKLESS REPRESENTATIVES OF AN OUTPOST GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY REGION. | | |
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Ted Bell
in this heart-pounding nautical action adventure, intrepid British intelligence operative Alex Hawke must thwart a secret, deadly alliance between China and France before they annihilate everyone and everything in their headlong rush ... | | |
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David Cordingly
A revisionist history of the golden age of piracy draws on original archive records to provide a realistic study of pirates and their lives that refutes many of the myths about the era. | | |
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Richard Zacks
Traces the career of buccaneer William Kidd, a New York sea captain hired to chase pirates, from his early voyages through his death on the gallows, and discusses the role played by Robert Culliford, a mutineer, in Kidd's downfall. | | |
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