Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
Subtitle: Fiction, Fact and Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main
Publisher: Amereon Limited
Published: June 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780848807580
Subjects: Places & peoples: general interest; Classics; Historical - General; Sea Stories; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sea & Ocean; Fiction
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.