But with ``Blackbeard'' it is different, for in him we have a real, ranting, raging, roaring pirate per se -- one who really did bury treasure, who made more than one captain walk the plank, and who committed more private murders than he could number on the fingers of both hands; one who fills, and will continue to fill, the place to which he has been assigned for generations, and who may be depended upon to hold his place in the confidence of others for generations to come.
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This review is from: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact and Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main (Hardcover)
I ordered this book hoping that it contained the large, full color illustrations of previous editions. It doesn't. While it contains all the illustrations, they are smaller, black and white photographs of the originals. So of course I was dissapointed. (For $, what did I expect? Earlier editions sell from $75 to over a $1,000). But anyone who enjoys an old fashioned pirate tale will not be dissapointed. Howard Pyle was not only an extraordinary illustrator, but also a masterful story teller.
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JUST above the northwestern shore of the old island of Hispaniola - the Santo Domingo of our day - and separated from it only by a narrow channel of some five or six miles in width, lies a queer little hunch of an island, known, because of a distant resemblance to that animal, as the Tortuga de Mar, or sea turtle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tom Chist, Captain Morgan, Barnaby True, New York, Parson Jones, Levi West, Sir John Malyoe, Squire Hall, Master Harry, West Indies, Hiram White, Lieutenant Maynard, Captain Scarfield, Sieur Simon, Captain Brand, Captain Cooper, Matt Abrahamson, North Carolina, Belle Helen, Eleazer Cooper, Henry Morgan, Indian River, Porto Bello, Captain Malyoe, Captain Kidd New!
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JUST above the northwestern shore of the old island of Hispaniola - the Santo Domingo of our day - and separated from it only by a narrow channel of some five or six miles in width, lies a queer little hunch of an island, known, because of a distant resemblance to that animal, as the Tortuga de Mar, or sea turtle. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tom Chist, Captain Morgan, Barnaby True, New York, Parson Jones, Levi West, Sir John Malyoe, Squire Hall, Master Harry, West Indies, Hiram White, Lieutenant Maynard, Captain Scarfield, Sieur Simon, Captain Brand, Captain Cooper, Matt Abrahamson, North Carolina, Belle Helen, Eleazer Cooper, Henry Morgan, Indian River, Porto Bello, Captain Malyoe, Captain Kidd New!
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- The Book of Pirates (Dover Children's Classics) by Howard Pyle in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- First Day (A Dewey Does book) by John Cooper on page 149
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