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Blackbeard : America's most notorious pirate

Author: Angus Konstam
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard (who probably went by the name of Edward Teach). Nearly three centuries after his death his name is still synonymous with piracy. Not content with becoming the scourge of the Caribbean, this brutal and fearless hell-raiser then
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Konstam, Angus.
Blackbeard.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2006
(OCoLC)607637976
Online version:
Konstam, Angus.
Blackbeard.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2006
(OCoLC)609289026
Named Person: Edward Teach; Blackbeard
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 047175885X 9780471758853 9780470128213 0470128216
OCLC Number: 62738529
Description: xiv, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: A date with history --
The pirate apprentice --
A pirate's life --
The scourge of the Caribbean --
Mixing with the wrong crowd --
The devil off Charles Town --
A cutthroat business --
The lord of the Outer Banks --
Trouble in the colonies --
The last battle --
The Blackbeard legacy.
Responsibility: Angus Konstam.
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"A thorough, exciting examination of 18th-century pirate life,with wonderful details. " --Publishers Weekly "Interesting and exciting... a thoroughly enjoyable chronicle of an interesting life and  Read more...

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"...the fearsome role model for a new breed of screen pirates..." (The Scotsman, July 2006) "...real pirate of the Caribbean..." (The Daily Mirror, July 2006)

 
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