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14 produkter
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Häftad, 2006
293 kr
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Pirates
Fact and Fiction
Av David Cordingly, John Falconer
Inbunden, 2021
246 kr
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The image of the pirate never fails to capture the imagination. The cut-throat sea robbers of history who plundered richly laden merchant ships are legendary. The likes of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and Henry Morgan are romanticised and celebrated in popular culture.But fiction has taken the place of …
Pirates
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Av Charles Johnson, David Cordingly
Häftad, 2017
160 kr
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A facsimile edition of a classic source for the history of piracy, as used by Robert Louis Stevenson in the writing of Treasure Island.Captain Charles Johnson’s General History of Pirates was one of the best-selling books of 1724, when it was first published. It provides a sweeping account of what …
Life Among the Pirates
The Romance and the Reality
Häftad, 1996
151 kr
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What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact.In this revealing and highly original study David Cordingly sets out to discover the truth behind the …
Seafaring Women
Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors'' Wives
E-bok, 2009
79 kr
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For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled …
Women Sailors and Sailors' Women
E-bok, 2001
221 kr
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For centuries the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters stayed on shore. Oceangoing adventurers and the crews of their ships were part of an all-male world — or were they? In this illuminating …
Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
E-bok, 2011
110 kr
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From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer …
Cochrane the Dauntless
The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860
Häftad, 2008
176 kr
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Patrick O' Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane's exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of his fictional counterparts. He was a man of action, whose bold and impulsive nature meant he was often his own worst enemy. …
Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean: The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Häftad, 2012
316 kr
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Ships and Seascapes
Introduction to Maritime Prints, Drawings and Watercolours
Inbunden, 2001
1094 kr
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Maritime prints, drawings and watercolours a re discussed, and a historical survey of the development of marine art is given, by a former Head of Painting at the Nat ional Maritime Museum in Greenwich. '
Spanish Gold
Captain Woodes Rogers and the Pirates of the Caribbean
E-bok, 2011
221 kr
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The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor of the Bahamas, who brought them to book. ''Both a brilliant idea and an engrossing book that tells the story of a ship of the line in Nelson''s …
Spanish Gold
Captain Woodes Rogers and the True Story of the Pirates of the Caribbean
Häftad, 2012
216 kr
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The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor of the Bahamas, who brought them to book.‘Both a brilliant idea and an engrossing book that tells the story of a ship of the line in Nelson's day' …
Cochrane the Dauntless
The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860
E-bok, 2013
195 kr
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Patrick O''Brian, C.S. Forester and Captain Marryat all based their literary heroes on Thomas Cochrane, but Cochrane''s exploits were far more daring and exciting than those of his fictional counterparts. He was a man of action, whose bold and impulsive nature meant he was often his own worst …
Billy Ruffian
Häftad, 2004
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
132 kr
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This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. Under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), the opening action against Revolutionary France; …
