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Volunteers outside the USA: A. Hyatt Verrill died in 1954. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 70 years for authors who died after 1971; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64521Ah, the Buccaneers... “We hear much of the bold, wild ways of these adventurers; Perchance it is the fact that we all appreciate bravery—and, notwithstanding their multitude of sins, the buccaneers were brave beyond compare. Again, it may be that in all of us lurks a little of the gambling spirit and we admire those who can take a chance, even though we do not, and no greater gamblers ever lived than the buccaneers. They staked their lives at every turn, they gambled with death, and the greater the odds the more readily did they throw themselves into the game. And it was this gambling spirit, this recklessness that enabled them to defy the world of their day.” (from the Introduction)
The author recounts sailing from port to port among the islands of the West Indies and along the Spanish Main. At each, he describes the present (ca. 1923) conditions and relives its dark and bloody history in the Golden Age of Piracy. An interesting take on a familiar subject, it's well written and highly entertaining.
Some of the deeds recounted are “dark and bloody” indeed. This is not a book for the soft-stomached.
But then, what's a pirate yarn without a few good massacres, plunderings, and burnings? Yo-ho! (Summary by Steven Seitel)
Target completion date: 2023-06-30
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/History; *Non-fiction/Travel & Geography
Keywords that describe the book: piracy, sailing, caribbean islands, west indies - description and travel
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