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Benjamin Barker

A classic work about the infamous pirate Blackbeard, first published in 1847. Blackbeard was a notorious English pirate who had a short reign of terror in the Caribbean Sea between 1716 and 1718, during a period of time referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy.

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Benjamin Barker

A classic work about the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Blackbeard was a notorious English pirate who had a short reign of terror in the Caribbean Sea between 1716 and 1718, during a period of time referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy. This was a very interesting story about Blackbeard. It defies all previous mental illustrations I have had in the past.

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Barker, Benjamin

Popular children's book about pirates, first published in 1847.

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James Baldwin

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin.

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John Buchan

The three of us in that winter camp in the Selkirks were talking the slow aimless talk of wearied men.

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Howard I. Pyle

Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle.Pyle, artist-author, living in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth, had the fine faculty of transposing himself into any chosen period of history and making its people flesh and blood again—not just historical puppets. H...

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Maturin M. Ballou

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Adventure & the Sea

Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, Ivan Aivazovsky and Edvard Munch. A slaver on the West African coast, a quadroon woman sold with the cargo, and a Yankee captain who has to decide what he is. Ballou founded Ballou's Pictorial and, with a partner, the first American story paper, turning out cheap romances by the yard. Read it as evidence: this is how the American mass market of the 1850s told itself about slavery, and the telling is worth examining. Fift...

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Washington Irving

‘Rip Van Winkle’ is a classic short story by American author Washington Irving (author of ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’). It was first published in 1819. The story has been adapted for film, and theatre, and is an American classic.It is the story of Dutch-American villager named Rip Van Winkle. A family man, a husband, an avid fisherman. One day, after meeting a group of mysterious Dutchman, Rip drinks alcohol and falls asleep in the Catskill mountains. When he awakes, the world is...

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Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle.

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George Augustus Sala

OF SUNDRY MY ADVENTURES FROM THE TIME OF MY GOING ABROAD UNTIL MY COMING TO MAN'S ESTATE (WHICH WAS ALL THE ESTATE I HAD).

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Richard Henry Dana

Richard Henry Dana dropped out of school and became an ordinary deckhand on the brig Pilgrim. The perilous journey from Boston, begun in 1834, took the ailing yet determined youth past Cape Horn and around the Americas, concluding in the Mexican territory California. This expedition inspired Two Years before the Mast, a first-hand account of "the life of a common sailor" a work that combines history, philosophy, and personal experience.

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Mary Johnston

According to Wikipedia: "Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate. The daughter of an American Civil War soldier who became a successful lawyer, Mary Johnston was born in the small town of Buchanan, Virginia. A small and frail girl, she was educated at home by family and tutors. She grew up with a love of books and was financially independent enough to devote herself to writing. Johnston wrote historical books and novels that often ...