The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf, Paperback - William C. Davis

Reducere. At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean a...

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Reducere. No other name is more associated with the Gulf Coast than that of privateer, Jean Laffite. He has been called everything from a blood-thirsty pirat...

Reducere. William C. Davis, "one of the best and most prolific historians of the American Civil War" (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom), o...

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Reducere. Born to a dark-skinned maid and Lorenzo II de' Medici, the illegitimate Alessandro was groomed for power. In 1532, at the age of nineteen, backed b...

Reducere. Written by two of the Southeast's foremost authorities on sea turtle conservation, this is an accessible, fully illustrated guide to the species th...

Reducere. Ruler of Florence for seven bloody years, 1531 to 1537, Alessandro de' Medici was arguably the first person of color to serve as a head of state in...

Reducere. Available for the first time in trade paperback, the third of five volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential ...

Reducere. December 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militar...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee have never before been paired as they are here. In Crucible of Command, William C. Davis, one of America's preem...

Reducere. "A solid history of a relatively unknown area of Florida. The rich detail of destruction by hurricanes and fires; the building of lighthouses, scho...

On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte's eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy's 3rd and 7th fleets, which were assiste...

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Ma...

Reducere. DescriptionThe divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing abyss. On a quiet summer evening, som...

Reducere. The coast of southwest Florida, with its shallow waters, inlets, and mangrove islands provides the setting and backdrop for a variety of pirates, p...

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Reducere. In The American Frontier, historian William C. Davis masterfully chronicles the history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular at...

Reducere. Where in the World is the Moon?, a children's picture book, invites children and adults alike to notice Earth's moon and its phases. The book can b...

Reducere. For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the worl...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Alan C. CareyIllustration(s): 200 colour & b/w photosNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2014Dimensi...

Examining the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf Arab shaykhdoms, this is the first book to investigate the origins of the ...

At the age of 29, naturalist John Muir set out alone for a long hike through the rural American South in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. ...

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Today, political leaders and candidates for office must campaign in a multi-media world not only through the traditional media forums, but also thr...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of the Don't Know Much About(R) books comes a dramatic account of the origins of democracy, the history of authoritaria...

Reducere. The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the worldIn the ...

Reducere. Sifu William C. Phillips, a devoted student and master teacher of tai chi with over fifty years experience, takes us on a journey into his lifetime...

In the future, the terminally ill can prolong life by surrendering their consciousness to a cybernetic life form that is then recruited into the no...

Sharks are ruthlessly efficient predators, the apex of 450 million years of evolution. They are older than trees, have survived five extinction eve...

Combining the study of minorities with migrants, this book examines the citizenship and migration polices of the United Arab Emirates to show how t...

DescriptionA hilarious send-up of writing workshops, for-profit education, and the gulf between believers and nonbelieversMarianne is in a slump: b...

Max Scheler's Cognition and Work first appeared in German in 1926, just two years before his death. The first part of the book offers one of the ea...

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction an...

From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South P...

The play is based around the two lovers Mirabell and Millamant. In order for the two to get married and receive Millamant's full dowry, Mirabell mu...