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Author: Jon Latimer Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674034031 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 353
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During the seventeenth century, sea raiders known as buccaneers controlled the Caribbean. Buccaneers were not pirates but privateers, licensed to attack the Spanish by the governments of England, France, and Holland. Jon Latimer charts the exploits of these men who followed few rules as they forged new empires. Lacking effective naval power, the English, French, and Dutch developed privateering as the means of protecting their young New World colonies. They developed a form of semi-legal private warfare, often carried out regardless of political developments on the other side of the Atlantic, but usually with tacit approval from London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs of such figures as William Dampier, Sieur Raveneau de Lussan, Alexander Oliver Exquemelin, and Basil Ringrose, Jon Latimer portrays a world of madcap adventurers, daredevil seafarers, and dangerous rogues. Piet Hein of the Dutch West India Company captured, off the coast of Cuba, the Spanish treasure fleet, laden with American silver, and funded the Dutch for eight months in their fight against Spain. The switch from tobacco to sugar transformed the Caribbean, and everyone scrambled for a quick profit in the slave trade. Oliver Cromwell’s ludicrous Western Design—a grand scheme to conquer Central America—fizzled spectacularly, while the surprising prosperity of Jamaica set England solidly on the road to empire. The infamous Henry Morgan conducted a dramatic raid through the tropical jungle of Panama that ended in the burning of Panama City. From the crash of gunfire to the billowing sail on the horizon, Latimer brilliantly evokes the dramatic age of the buccaneers.
Author: Christy Shaffer Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486420574 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Dragons have figured prominently in the legends and folk tales of countless cultures. Thirty ready-to-color images of fire-breathing mythical creatures with batlike wings, scaly skin, and a barbed tail — among them a flying dragon with three heads; Quetzalcoatl, a legendary feather-covered serpent; the Leviathan, a sea monster of enormous proportions; the African amphisbaena, a beast with heads on both ends of its body; and a real dragon, the Komodo, one of the world's largest living reptiles.
Author: Anna Pomaska Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486237329 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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Twenty-three full-page illustrations for you to color plus room for you to write in your own story about the adventures of Penny, Mark, and Koko the clown. Make each page a separate story or connect the pictures and write one long story. Publisher's Note.
Author: Brenda Sneathen Mattox Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486462323 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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From an American couple cutting the cake to Japanese drinking sake and Germans breaking dishes, these 30 romantic images depict an international array of bridal customs.
Author: John Green Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486263069 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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Dramatic, ready-to-color renderings of over 40 seagoing and freshwater mammals, including the bottlenose dolphin, Irrawaddy dolphin, Amazon dolphin, northern bottlenose whale, sperm whale, blue whale, killer whale, and astonishing ivory tusked narwhal. Full-color illustrations on covers. Fact-filled captions.
Author: Peter F. Copeland
Author: Peter F. Copeland
Author: Howard Pyle
Author: Peter F. Copeland
Author: Jon Latimer
Author: A. G. Smith
Author: Christy Shaffer
Author: Anna Pomaska
Author: Brenda Sneathen Mattox
Author: John Green
Author: Spyros Horemis