The Story of Ship "John" and the Pirates that Roamed the Waters in Delaware Bay Long Ago
Author : Sarah Sheppard Hancock
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 194?
Category : Pirates
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Author : Sarah Sheppard Hancock
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 194?
Category : Pirates
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Author : Jamie L. H. Goodall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category : History
ISBN : 146714827X
Illicit commerce was key to the survival of the mid-Atlantic colonies from the Golden Age of piracy to the battles of the American Revolution. Out of this exciting time came beloved villains like Captain William Kidd and Black Sam Bellamy as well as inspiring locals like Captain Shelley and James Forten. Learn of the legend of Sadie the Goat and her Charlton Street Gang as piracy was ending in the region in the 19th century. From the shores of New York to the oceans of the East Indies, from Delaware Bay to the islands of the West Indies, author Jamie L.H. Goodall illuminates the height of piratical depredations in the mid-Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Page : 616 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Union catalogs
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Björn Larsson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Pirates
ISBN : 9781860466946
"Long John Silver, the enigmatic, treacherous and yet strangely attractive pirate whose exploits have been recounted by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island lived out his twilight years on Madagascar, rich, one-legged, attended by a handful of devoted slaves whose freedom he had purchased in the West Indies after inciting them to rebellion. That he had a price on his head and the Navy out looking to bring him to justice bothered him less than the threat of posthumous obscurity. So he set down his memoirs. These are they." "We read of his early years before the mast on board a merchantman, his shipwreck on the Irish coast, his life as a cross-Channel smuggler, and later his passage from West Africa to the Caribbean on a slave ship - John Silver himself a shackled slave in the hold, the price of insubordination. After escaping he took to piracy, first on his own account and eventually as Quartermaster to Captain Flint, a rum-soaked brute who was feared like the Devil himself. And why did a man as determined, brutal and, when the occasion served, devious as Long John Silver choose to go to sea as Quartermaster when he could perfectly well have been Captain? Because what he execrated above all else was established authority - he was always (so he liked to claim) with the crew and against the Captain. In no other way could he preserve his self-respect." "In Long John Silver Bjorn Larsson has produced a witty, shrewd and well meditated account of a pirate's life that, in this seamless Stevensonian translation by Tom Geddes, will earn its place on the bookshelf of every prospective corsair."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Howard Pyle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387006934
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Charles Boardman Hawes
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Orphans
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A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.
Author : Gideon Defoe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408824957
Just make sure we've got plenty of hams on board. I didn't really enjoy our last adventure much because we ran out of hams about halfway through. And what's my motto? I like ham! It is 1837, and for the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain and his rag-tag pirate crew, life on the high seas has gotten a little dull. With nothing to do but twiddle their hooks and lounge aimlessly on tropical beaches, the Captain decides it's time they had an adventure. A surprisingly successful boat raid leads them to the young Charles Darwin, in desperate need of their help. And so the pirates set forth for London in a bid to save the scientist from the evil machinations of a diabolical Bishop. There they encounter grisly murder, vanishing ladies, the Elephant Man - and have an exciting trip to the zoo.
Author : John L. Ruth
Publisher : Herald Press (VA)
Page : 1402 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
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John Landis Ruth adds folk memory to extensive documentation and careful explanation of key beliefs and practices in this 360-year story of faith in Lanacaster County. An indispensable source with lists of early immigrants, congregations, ordinations, and conference officers up to 1977, and a general chronology.
Author : Mark P. Donnelly
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0811748863
High adventure, dastardly deeds, and newly uncovered lore.
Author : Frederick Marryat
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,92 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Children's stories
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