A FORBIDDEN ATTRACTION IN PARADISE! Shipwrecked off the coast of Barbados, pirate hunter William Greenacre is ready to surrender to the seductive pull of the sea when an angelic figure dives to his rescue.
But it turns out that most everyone, even many respected scholars, have the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates.
Kidd handed Duncan Campbell a green silkbag, containing five pounds of bar gold, worth £250,asum that wouldbuy a nice pieceof Manhattandock land. Notelegant butso handy in these cash-scarce colonies. Campbell walked to Peter Sergeant's ...
Traces the career of buccaneer William Kidd, a New York sea captain hired to chase pirates, from his early voyages through his death on the gallows, and discusses the role played by Robert Culliford, a mutineer, in Kidd's downfall.
Everybody knows the legend of Captain Kidd, Americas most ruthless buccanneer. Few people realize that the facts of his life make for a much better tale. Kidd was actually a...
Shipwrecked off the coast of Barbados, pirate hunter William Greenacre is ready to surrender to the seductive pull of the sea when an angelic figure dives to his rescue.
A Royal Navy officer's widow is abducted by a high seas adventurer who thinks she has information vital to his quest in bringing pirates to justice.
A widowed woman believes she may have found the key to her hardened heart in the arms of her abductor—a roguish pirate hunter.
So when James Ardmore, Southern gentleman pirate hunter and thorn in the side of the British navy, abducts her from a tedious house party and spirits her off to his ship, she lets him know what she thinks of heroes.