Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts Author:Frank R. Stockton This book brings vividly to life the true stores - some humorous, some blood-curdling, all fascinating - of the most famous scoundrels of the colorful era when outlaws ruled the high seas. — Here is the store of Blackbeard, who felt compelled to shoot one of his crew from time to time just to remind his men what sort of person he was - of Jean La... more »fitte, who set foot on board ship only twice in his life, but who controlled with an iron fist a fabulously profitable piracy business from his little blacksmith shop in New Orleans - of two women pirates whose cutlasses and pistols were as deadly as the most feared man's - and of Captain Kidd, blackest outlaw of them all, whose real story far surpasses in horror and cunning the legends of his famed hidden treasures and daring exploits.
You will thrill to these and other hair-raising tales of fantastic men and bold adventures, told in a style as lively as the buccaneers' escapades.« less