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Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America's most notorious pirates / Eric Jay Dolin.

Dolin, Eric Jay, (author.).

Summary:
"Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's 'Golden Age'--spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s--when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Blending scholarship and drama, Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the British Crown, and then violently opposed them. Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period, among them the towering Blackbeard, the ill-fated Captain Kidd, and the sadistic Edward Low, who delighted in torturing his prey"--Back cover

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781631496226
  • ISBN: 1631496220
  • Physical Description: xxi, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-365) and index
Formatted Contents Note:
Small beginnings -- Welcomed with open arms -- "Where the money was as plenty as stones and sand" -- Crackdown -- War's reprieve -- Interlude, or a pirate classification -- Treasure and the tempest -- The gentleman pirate and Blackbeard -- Fading away -- Epilogue: "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!"
Subject: Pirates > United States > History.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Hijacking of ships > History.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Bangor Public Library 910.45 DOL (Text) 75011000402799 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Palmerton Area Library 910.45 D68 (Text) 65000000056285 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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