Black flags, blue waters
Subtitle: the epic history of America's most notorious pirates
By: Eric Jay Dolin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9781631492105
Subjects: Pirates; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Small beginnings; title: Welcomed with open arms; title: "Where the money was as plenty as stones and sand"; title: Crackdown; title: War's reprieve; title: Interlude, or a pirate classification; title: Treasure and the tempest; title: The gentleman pirate and Blackbeard; title: Fading away; title: Epilogue: "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!"