Record details

• ISBN: 1560258853
• ISBN: 9781560258858
• Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"First published in North America by Thunder's Mouth Press, by arrangement with National Maritime Museum Publishing, London, 2006"--T.p. verso.

BBC TV tie-in.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 190).

Formatted Contents Note:

Mystery of Captain Johnson 12 -- Money and Treasure 13 -- 1 Origins of a Legend 14 -- Struck by a Storm 27 -- Navigation 28 -- 2 A Voyage into Piracy 30 -- Sam Bellamy and the Fate of the Whydah 39 -- The 'Wickedest City on Earth' 40 -- 3 Out of Control in the Bahamas 44 -- Pirate Sloops and Ships 58 -- Pirate Attack 59 -- 4 Finding a Flagship 60 -- Slave Trade 70 -- Articles of John Phillips 71 -- 5 A Floating Den of Thieves 72 -- A Proclamation for Surpressing Pyrates 80 -- Pirate Flags 82 -- 6 Siege of Charleston 84 -- Pirate Pastimes 94 -- A Carpenter for a Surgeon 96 -- 7 Man from Hell 98 -- Galleons and Gold 112 -- Pirate Discipline 114 -- 8 Hunt for Charles Vane 116 -- Pirate Food and Drink 120 -- Devils Incarnate 122 -- 9 Battle of Ocracoke 126 -- Pistols and Cutlasses 138 -- Arrested for Piracy 140 -- 10 Searching for Justice 142 -- Looking for Revenge 153 -- Victims of Piracy 154 -- 11 Darkest Years of the Golden Age 156 -- Anne Bonny and Mary Read 170 -- Pirates in Film and Fiction 172 -- Epilogue: Sunken Treasures 176 -- Piracy after Blackbeard 184 -- Blackbeard the Television Film 186.

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

Blackbeard, -1718.
Pirates > Biography.
North Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Genre:

Biographies.