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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious F by Edward Kritzler Publisher Comments In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Pirate Wars by Peter Earle Publisher Comments The Pirate Wars takes the romantic fable of oceangoing Robin Hoods sailing under the "banner of King Death" and contrasts it with the murderous reality of robbery, torture, and murder on the high seas. Noted maritime historian Peter Earle charts... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer by Diana Preston and Michael Preston Publisher Comments Seventeenth-century pirate genius William Dampier sailed around the world three times when crossing the Pacific was a major feat, was the first explorer to visit all five continents, and reached Australia eighty years before Captain Cook. His exploits... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates (Complete Idiot's Guides) by Gail Selinger Publisher Comments A view of pirate lifefrom the crows nest Pirate lore has captured our fancy for centuries. Here is the first series book that gives readers a comprehensive yet entertaining history of those swashbuckling brigands. It offers portraits of such... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Pirates by Angus Konstam Publisher Comments A wonderful chronicle of thievery murder and torture on the high seas all in a beautiful oversized... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807 by Donald G Shomette Publisher Comments Here is a dazzling array of swashbuckling pirates, picaroons, and sea rovers pitted against the often feckless representatives of an outpost government authority in the Chesapeake Bay region. It is an exciting and dramatic 200-year history that begins... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Scourge of the Seas: Buccaneers, Pirates & Privateers (General Military) by Angus Konstam Publisher Comments In their heyday, the sight of a pirate ship on the horizon would strike terror into the hearts of their intended victims. The colorful yet fearsome reputation of the pirate still resonates today and the sight of the skull and crossbones retains its... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks Publisher Comments A literary treasure, "The Pirate Hunter" is a masterpiece of historical detective work, and a rare, authentic pirate story for grown-ups.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (Harvest Book) by David Cordingly Publisher Comments "This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read." -- Patrick O'Brian Pirates are so much a part of legend that it is easy to forget they actually existed. UNDER THE BLACK FLAG tells their story... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign by Stephan Talty Publisher Comments Awash with bloody battles, political intrigue, and an incredible epoch-ending natural disaster, this is the real-life story of Henry Morgan, the legendary pirate of the Caribbean, who in the 17th century challenged the greatest military power on earth... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea by Barbara Sjoholm Publisher Comments Sjoholm brings back to life some extraordinary swashbuckling tales of women of the sea, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey in this meticulously researched, colorfully written, and truly original work. Also included are illustrations and maps.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Johnson Publisher Comments Captain Charles Johnson: The identity of Captain Johnson remains a mystery. For many years the name was believed to be a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe and other classic works including Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton, which is... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney Publisher Comments "As factual and . . . authentic as anything on the subject could be."—The New Yorker. One of the most comprehensive and accurate accounts of buccaneering, this exciting narrative is the work of an experienced 18th-century sailor who traveled with... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard Publisher Comments In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains, including Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and "Black Sam" Bellamy, joined forces. This infamous "Flying Gang" was more than simply a thieving band of brothers. Many of its members had come... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Speedwell Voyage: a Tale of Piracy and Mutiny in the Eighteenth Century by Kenneth Poolman Synopsis This tale of real-life adventure on the high seas brings readers back to 1718, when the 22-gun privateer Speedwell set sail under the command of George Shelvocke. A Royal Navy veteran recalls the mutinies, battles, storms, and other adversities, with... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate by Angus Konstam Publisher Comments "Imagination cannot form an idea of a Fury,from hell, to look more frightful." —Captain Charles Johnson Six loaded pistols dangled from his shoulder sling. Beneath a cocked fur cap, lighted candles sprouted from a bramble of whiskers the color of... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth Century Caribbean by B R Burg Publisher Comments The messianic idea that a redeemer sent by God will come to end the suffering of a persecuted people and inaugurate a new age of justice and peace has been one of the most powerful and influential concepts given by the Jewish people to western... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers by Charles Ellms Publisher Comments Rare volume, based on actual documents, recounts in lurid detail the life, atrocities and bloody death of the infamous Black Beard as well as the cold-blooded exploits of Jean Lafitte, Robert Kidd, Edward Low, Thomas White, Anne Bonney, Mary Read, and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood Publisher Comments The true story that's "bloody good entertainment" (New York Times) about the colorful and legendary pirates of the 17th century. If not for today's news stories about piracy on the high seas, it'd be easy to think of pirating as a romantic way... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pirates and Piracy (Dover Maritime Books) by E Kebble Chatterton Publisher Comments Stirring true tales of real, high-seas treachery abound in this compulsively readable narrative of corsairs, freebooters, and privateers. From the Norsemen and the pirates of the Levant and the China Seas, to Edward Teach (Blackbeard), Captain Kidd, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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