The Republic of Pirates
Being the true and surprising story of the Caribbean pirates and the man who brought them down
For fans of Black Sails and Crossbones comes a new history of the Golden Age of Piracy. . . 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 to piracy as a revolt against conditions in the merchant fleet and in the cities and plantations in the Old and New Worlds. Inspired by notions of self-government, they established a crude but distinctive form of democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which indentured servant…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4472-4608-4
- EAN: 9781447246084
- Produktnummer: 15692596
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'889 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 - 100 J.
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Colin Woodard
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