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Говард Пайл. Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy
Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter I. Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main
Chapter II. The Ghost of Captain Brand
Chapter III. With the Buccaneers
I
II
III
IV
V
Chapter IV. Tom Chist and the Treasure Box
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
Chapter V. Jack Ballister's Fortunes
I
II
Chapter VI. Blueskin, The Pirate
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
Chapter VII. Captain Scarfield
Preface
I
II
III
IV
Chapter VIII. The Ruby of Kishmooor
Prologue
I. Jonathan Rugg
II. The Mysterious Lady With the Silver Veil
III. The Terrific Encounter With the One-Eyed Little Gentleman in Black
IV. The Momentous Adventure With the Stranger With the Silver Earrings
V. The Unexpected Encounter With the Sea Captain With the Broken Nose
VI. The Conclusion of the Adventure With the Lady With the Silver Veil
Epilogue
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Howard Pyle
e-artnow, 2021
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The result was that when the seventeenth century was fairly packed away with its lavender in the store chest of the past, a score or more bands of freebooters were cruising along the Atlantic seaboard in armed vessels, each with a black flag with its skull and crossbones at the fore, and with a nondescript crew made up of the tags and remnants of civilized and semicivilized humanity (white, black, red, and yellow), known generally as marooners, swarming upon the decks below.
Nor did these offshoots from the old buccaneer stem confine their depredations to the American seas alone; the East Indies and the African coast also witnessed their doings, and suffered from them, and even the Bay of Biscay had good cause to remember more than one visit from them.
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