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The pirate wars

The Pirate Wars charts 250 years of piracy, from the Carolinas to the Caribbean, from the sixteenth century to the hanging of the last pirate captain in Boston in 1835
Print Book, English, 2005
1st U.S. ed View all formats and editions
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005
Nonfiction
xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780312335793, 0312335792
56880110
Pirates of fable
A nation of pirates
God's plunderers
Cleansing home waters
Containing the corsairs
The buccaneers
The Red Sea man
War against the pirates
The golden age of pirates
Extermination
Maritime mayhem revived
An end to piracy
Originally published: London : Methuen, 2003