Who Was Blackbeard? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Was Blackbeard? write by James Buckley, Jr.. This book was released on 2015-11-10. Who Was Blackbeard? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the most famous pirate in history.
Blackbeard the Pirate
Blackbeard the Pirate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blackbeard the Pirate write by Robert Earl Lee. This book was released on 1974. Blackbeard the Pirate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was one of the most notorious pirates ever to plague the Atlantic coast. He was also one of the most colorful pirates of all time, becoming the model for countless blood-and-thunder tales of sea rovers. His daring exploits, personal courage, terrifying appearance, and fourteen wives made him a legend in his own lifetime. The legends and myths about Blackbeard have become wilder rather than tamer in the 250 years since his gory but valiant death at Ocracoke Inlet. It is difficult for historians, and all but impossible for the general reader, to separate fact from fiction. Author Robert E. Lee has studied virtually every scrap of information available about the pirate and his contemporaries in an attempt to find the real Blackbeard. The result is a fascinating and authoritative study that reads like an exciting swashbuckler. Lee goes beyond the myths and the image Teach so carefully cultivated to reveal a new Blackbeard--infinitely more interesting as a man than as a legend. In the process, he has captured the spirit and character of a vanished age, "the golden age of piracy."
Blackbeard
Blackbeard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blackbeard write by Angus Konstam. This book was released on 2006-06-05. Blackbeard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Teach's Light
Teach's Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teach's Light write by Nell Wise Wechter. This book was released on 2012-05-15. Teach's Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The legend of Teach's Light has been handed down by the people of Stumpy Point village in coastal North Carolina for nearly three centuries. None can say when the mysterious light that hovers above Little Dismal Swamp will next appear, but it is said to guard a store of treasure buried long ago by Edward Teach (c. 1680-1718), better known as the infamous pirate Blackbeard. One summer evening, teenagers Corky Calhoun and Toby Davis row into the swamp, drawn by the mystery of Teach's Light. But their adventure soon takes a curious turn. Thrown back in time by a sudden explosion, Corky and Toby find themselves floating safely above seventeenth-century England, as Blackbeard's life unfolds below. They watch as the orphaned Edward Teach decides to stow away across the Atlantic, begins his career as the fearsome Blackbeard, stages terrible raids from the Caribbean to North Carolina aboard his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, and, finally, is beheaded in a battle with the British Crown's ships. An inventive blend of history and science fiction, Teach's Light brings Blackbeard's story vividly to life.
Blackbeard’s Last Fight
Blackbeard’s Last Fight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blackbeard’s Last Fight write by Angus Konstam. This book was released on 2013-06-20. Blackbeard’s Last Fight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers – licenced pirates – preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now found themselves out of a job, and many turned to piracy. One of theme was Edward Teach – more popularly known as “Blackbeard”. He joined the pirates in New Providence (now Nassau) in the Bahamas, and by early 1717 he had become a pirate captain. From then on he caused havoc off the North American seaboard, in the West Indies and off Honduras, before appearing off Charleston, South Carolina in May 1718. He blockaded this major port for a week, an act that made Blackbeard the most notorious pirate of his day.
