Howard Pyle's Book Of Pirates
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781419124884
Subjects: Historical fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Literature: Classics; Classics; Historical - General
First sentence: JUST above the northwestern shore of the old island of Hispaniola - the Santo Domingo of our day - and separated from it only by a narrow channel of some five or six miles in width, lies a queer little hunch of an island, known, because of a distant resemblance to that animal, as the Tortuga de Mar, or sea turtle.