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A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner: A Sea Atlas and Sailing Directions of the Pacific Coast of the Americas, 1682 Univ California Press. ISBN: 0520054105. Hardcover. September 1992. Usually ships within 24 hours.
Buccaneers of America A piratical classic! This is a current printing of the English-language edition of the famous first-person narrative that forms the basis of much of our present-day knowledge of classic piracy. Corner House Pub. ISBN: 0879280719. Hardcover. June 1976. Usually ships within 24 hours.
Peter Blood, a physician and an English gentleman, turned pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood is enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. No ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions! The Robin Hood-like figure of Blood, a gentleman-rogue homeless but for the surging decks of a pirate ship, makes for a classic hero. Regnery Publishing Inc. ISBN: 0895263793. Paperback. 304 pages. August 1998. Usually ships within 24 hours.
Newberry Medal winning story of a young man who falls into a life of piracy through no fault of his own. Little Brown & Co. ISBN: 0316350966. Hardcover Reissue edition (September 1971). Usually ships within 24 hours.
Defoe's authorship of this classic of pirate lore is in question. However, the vivid prose and graphic accounts not only were largely responsible for the posthumous reputations of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but also have inspired fictional pirates, from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island to Errol Flynn's movies. Publishers' Group West. ISBN: 0786706228. Paperback. 512 pages. June 1999. Usually ships within 24 hours.
A piratical classic! It's from this near-contemporary account that we derive about half of our knowledge of Carribbean piracy. A must-have for anyone with a serious interest in pirates. The Lyons Press. ISBN: 1558217665. Hardcover. 368 pages. Reprint edition (September 1998). Usually ships within 24 hours.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact and Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main A piratical classic! Exciting, page-turning stories of piracy, fact and fiction, accompanied by Pyle's paintings and drawings! A must-have item! Amereon Ltd. ISBN: 0848807588. Hardcover Reprint edition (June 1989). Usually ships within 24 hours.
A piratical classic! Originally published in an extremely rare 1837 volume, these delightfully melodramatic yet true stories of the diabolical desperadoes who plundered the ships of the high seas detail the lives, atrocities, and exploits of such infamous pirates as Blackbeard, Lafitte, Kidd, Low, and Bonney. 77 line illustrations. Dover Pubs. ISBN: 0486276074. Paperback. 469 pages. Reprint edition (July 1993). Usually ships within 24 hours.
Jim Hawkins, the cabin boy on a pirate ship, tells of the perilous adventures of a band of fortune seekers in this entracing classic. The classic N.C. Wyeth illustrations, which make this one of the finest editions ever of the timeless story, are made from new plates to ensure the best possible reproduction. Atheneum. ISBN: 0684171600. School & Library Binding. 273 pages. Deluxe edition. October 1981. Usually ships within 24 hours.
Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago. It has appeared with illustrations by many leading artists, but none so apt as Peake's — first published in 1949 and out of print for many years — until now. Everymans Library. ISBN: 0679418008. Hardcover. October 1992. Usually ships within 24 hours.
Though literature, films, and folklore have romanticized pirates as gallant seaman who hunted for treasure in exotic locales, David Cordingly, a former curator at the National Maritime Museum in England, reveals the facts behind the legends of such outlaws as Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Calico Jack. Harcourt Brace. ISBN: 0156005492. Paperback. 320 pages. Reprint edition (September 1997). Usually ships within 24 hours. |
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