Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America's most notorious pirates
(2018)
By:
Dolin, Eric Jay
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.2/DOLIN,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxix, 379 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781631492105, 1631492101
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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!"
"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"--