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Click to enlargeA General History of the Pyrates

Daniel Defoe
Our Price$21.95New!(Table of Contents)
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486404889
Page Count: 800
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Immensely readable history by the author of Robinson Crusoe incorporates the author's celebrated flair for journalistic detail, and represents the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century. Defoe recounts the daring and bloody deeds of such outlaws as Edward Teach (alias Blackbeard), Captain Kidd, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, many others.

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