Overview :"This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read."--Patrick O'Brian " A] wonderf... Read More
Overview :William Bennett and Michael Hague, the team that brought us the national bestseller The Children's Book of Virtues, have once again collabo... Read More
Overview :To be read alongside thrilling histories by Nathaniel Philbrick, Hampton Sides, and Rinker Buck, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates... Read More
Overview :A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF JANET MASLIN'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE SUMMERA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE... Read More
Overview :"Thoroughly engrossing . . . a spirited, suspenseful, economically told tale whose significance is manifest and whose pace never flags." --T... Read More
Overview :In 1717, the notorious pirate Blackbeard captured a French slaving vessel off the coast of Martinique and made it his flagship, renaming it ... Read More
Overview :"An immense treasure trove of fact-filled and highly readable fun." --Simon Winchester, The New York Times Book ReviewA Sunday Times (U.K.) ... Read More
Overview :Often romanticized in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas. In this book, Angus... Read More
Overview :Pull up anchor, set sail and hit the open water with this wonderful collection of sea shanties and their fascinating history. Over four cen... Read More
Overview :A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early mo... Read More
Overview :Anyone who loves a good story full of excitement, adventure, thrills, and laughs will find this massive collection (more than 800 pages ) ir... Read More
Overview :Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the fligh... Read More
Overview :The Barbary corsairs first appeared to terrorize shipping at the end of the fifteenth century. These Muslim pirates sailed out of the ports ... Read More
Overview :Pirates and Privateers narrates the incredible careers of the most interesting and infamous pirates in history, including legends like Black... Read More
Overview :For more than 5,000 years, the sea has challenged, rewarded, and punished the brave sailors who set forth to explore it. This history of the... Read More
Overview :Compass chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the magnetic compass--so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, b... Read More
Overview :An heir to an established land-owning aristocratic family in Barbados, Major Stede Bonnet enjoyed luxuries equal to those of the finest hous... Read More
Overview :Over the last couple of decades, an ideological battle has raged over the political legacy and cultural symbolism of the "golden age" pirate... Read More
Overview :"Little has a deep affection for his subject that occasionally leads him to affectation, but his use of piratical jargon is more charming th... Read More
Overview :" A] rollicking narrative . . . Superb"--Ben Wilson, Times A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and h... Read More