Ranking Faiths: Religious Stratification in America discusses how religion shapes access to power, privilege, and prestige in the U.S., both historically and today. James D. Davidson and Ralph E. Pyle dispel the idea that the U.S. was founded on the principle of religious equality for all, documenting how religion has been a factor in the allocation of power from the colonial period through the present. From the time of the earliest settlements in America through today, the book demonstrat...

The Pirates of the High Seas - Know Your Infamous Buccaneers, Their Exploits & Their Real Histories serves as a compelling anthology that dives into the tempestuous lives of pirates, exploring this broad theme through a tapestry of literary styles ranging from historical analysis to swashbuckling narratives. This collection not only examines the alluring lore of piracy but also critically engages with the often-romanticized depictions, providing a thorough exploration of both the myths and...

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Treasure Island (R. L. Stevenson) Blackbeard: Buccaneer (R. D. Paine) Pieces of Eight (Le Gallienne) Gold-Bug (Edgar A. Poe) The Dark Frigate (C. B. Hawes) Hearts of Three (Jack London) Captain Singleton (Defoe) Swords of Red Brotherhood (Howard) Queen of Black Coast (Howard) Afloat and Ashore (James F. Cooper) Pirate Gow (Defoe) The King of Pirates (Defoe) Barbarossa—Kin...

The Chronicles of Pirates gathers nine landmark accounts of maritime outlawry into a capacious history of piracy, balancing documentary narrative, biography, adventure writing, and later historical reconstruction. Moving from the buccaneering Caribbean to the wider Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds, it tests the distance between popular legend and archival reality. Narratives of sea raids, mutiny, colonial conflict, and notorious captains illuminate piracy not merely as romance, but as a v...

'The Pirates' Chronicles: Greatest Sea Adventure Books & Treasure Hunt Tales' is a compelling anthology that encapsulates the thrilling essence of piracy and maritime adventure across diverse literary periods and styles. Bridging classic works with lesser-known gems, the collection navigates through the turbulent waters of treachery, heroism, and the relentless pursuit of treasure, offering a broad tapestry of narrative voices. From robust historical accounts to rip-roaring fiction, each p...

The 'The Jolly Roger Tales: 60+ Pirate Novels, Treasure-Hunt Tales & Sea Adventures' serves as a treasure chest of maritime narratives, uniting a spectrum of voices that sail across various oceans of literary styles and epochs. This anthology not only recounts high-seas adventures but also plumbs the depths of human ambition, camaraderie, and betrayal. From swashbuckling pirates to stoic adventurers seeking untold treasures, the collection showcases an eclectic range of storytelling, inclu...

Rip-roaring fictional adventures of swashbuckling pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish Main, The Ghost of Captain Brand, Tom Chist and the Treasure Box, Jack Ballister's Fortunes, The Ruby of Kishmoor, and other tales.

“This tale that I am about to tell is of a little boy who lived and suffered in those dark middle ages; of how he saw both the good and the bad of men, and of how, by gentleness and love and not by strife and hatred, he came at last to stand above other men and to be looked up to by all.”—from the bookYoung Otto is born into a warring household in a lawless age. Having no mother, he is sent by his father, a valiant robber baron, to be safely raised by the monks until the age of twe...

These books are the illustrated versions of the original Howard Pyle's Books and include colour and Black & White images.When we think of pirates, a few names immediately come to mind, among them one who has become legendary in his ruthless attacks on innocent ships, the Pirate Capatin Kidd, which he then plundered of all valuables to make him staggeringly wealthy. Equally legendary was his habit of bury his hoards of treasure up and down the eastern seaboard.

The Real Pirates of the Caribbean (Complete Edition: Volume 1&2) gathers the notorious lives of early eighteenth-century sea rovers into a vivid documentary romance of the Atlantic world. Blending courtroom testimony, sailors' lore, moral anecdote, and sensational narrative, the work helped establish the enduring literary grammar of piracy: the black flag, the mutinous crew, the charismatic captain, and the unstable boundary between outlawry and empire. Captain Charles Johnson remains an e...

5 Exciting short stories by one of Americas best story tellers. - Chris Farrington: Able Seaman - Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan - The Lost Poacher - The Banks of the Sacramento - In Yeddo Bay

Cooper was one of the first writers to treat America's westward expansion as a great and ongoing epic; it was a theme of conflict-between civilization and the untouched wild, white culture and its insistent encroachments on the cultures of native America. Cooper fills his novels with legend and folklore, tall-tales, romance, and an earthy individualism. This American frontier classic chronicles the adventures of Hawkeye and his Indian friend, Chingachgook, during the French and Indian War....