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includes drawings; “In these delightfully melodramatic accounts… you’ll find true stories of the diabolical desperadoes who plundered ships on the high seas and murdered their passengers and crews. The stories, based on contemporary newspaper accounts, trial proceedings and Admiralty records, describe in lurid detail the life, atrocities and bloody death of the infamous Black Beard as well as the cold-blooded exploits of Jean Lafitte, Robert Kidd, Edward Low, Thomas White, Anne Bonney, Mary Read and scores of other maritime marauders.” |
