Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America's most notorious pirates /
"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&...
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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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!"