Black flags, blue waters: the epic history of America's most notorious pirates [First edition] 9781631492105, 9781631492112, 163149211X

"Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising h

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English Pages xxix, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color Year 2018

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Black flags, blue waters: the epic history of America's most notorious pirates [First edition]
 9781631492105, 9781631492112, 163149211X

Table of contents :
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!"

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