The pirate hunter : the true story of Captain Kidd / Richard Zacks.
2002
G537.K5 Z33 2002 (Mapit)
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Title
The pirate hunter : the true story of Captain Kidd / Richard Zacks.
Author
Zacks, Richard.
Edition
1st trade pbk. ed.
ISBN
0786884517 (paperback)
9780786884513 (paperback)
9780786884513 (paperback)
Publication Details
New York : Hyperion, ©2002.
Language
English
Description
426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Call Number
G537.K5 Z33 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
910.45
Summary
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer. Over the centuries, novelists, treasure hunters, and even historians have stoked his legend. But it turns out that most everyone, even respected scholars, have the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cutthroat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain, a privateer, who was hired to chase pirates. In 1696, he set out in a lone ship with a mutinous crew, heading 4,000 miles round the tip of Africa to track down a handful of vicious pirates led by one Robert Culliford and bring back their treasure to the governor of New York. At the end of the journey, one man would hang and the other would walk away. Through painstaking research, author Richard Zacks has pieced together the never-before-told story, an authentic pirate story for grownups.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-419) and index.
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