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Bezig met laden... Blackbeard the Pirate: A Reappraisal of His Life and Timesdoor Robert Earl Lee
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. You know, I was enjoying it until it turned into an essay on the governance of North Carolina in the eighteenth century. ( ) Lee does a great job sifting through the legend and what little is known of the man Edward Teach. From Teach's marketing prowess that made nearly everyone give up without a fight to his illegal murder after he had already received a pardon, this is the penultimate book on the life of Blackbeard. Lee delivers gold in his thesis on the life of Edward Teach. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: 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 Blackbeardâ??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." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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