Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates, Paperback - Eric Jay Dolin

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Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "It was the custom ...

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The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters (ISBN 978 1 63149 622 6) reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winn...

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DescriptionOften romanticized in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas. In this book, A...

Who doesn't love pirates? From Captain Hook to Captain Jack Sparrow, Blackbeard to Black Bart, these pistol-packing, cutlass-flashing, bandana-topp...

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BLACK DAHLIA: The Story of America's Most Gruesome MurderThe sun rose over Los Angeles that Wednesday morning in 1947, and a light breeze from the ...

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