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  • The Blood Trail
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Embark on a thrilling journey with prolific pulp fiction author Donald Barr Chidsey’s timeless series featuring the indomitable Miami cop Sgt. Wentworth L. McGarvey and his trusty sidekick, Detective Morton. Originally published in Detective Fiction Weekly in the late 1930s, this long-running series captured the imagination of readers across over 30 installments. Now, for the f...
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    27,80 €

  • Sir Humphrey Gilbert Elizabeth S Racketeer
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Sir Humphrey Gilbert was an adventurer, soldier, explorer, and courtier in the reign of Elizabeth I of England. In this lively and engaging biography, Donald Barr Chidsey brings Gilbert and his world vividly to life, chronicling his many exploits and the colorful cast of characters that surrounded him. From Gilbert’s early life as a soldier in Ireland to his ill-fated attempt t...
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    23,14 €

  • Sir Humphrey Gilbert Elizabeth S Racketeer
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Sir Humphrey Gilbert was an adventurer, soldier, explorer, and courtier in the reign of Elizabeth I of England. In this lively and engaging biography, Donald Barr Chidsey brings Gilbert and his world vividly to life, chronicling his many exploits and the colorful cast of characters that surrounded him. From Gilbert’s early life as a soldier in Ireland to his ill-fated attempt t...
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    35,62 €

  • Louisiana Purchase
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Louisiana Purchase examines the personalities and events that contributed to America’s acquisition of the Louisiana territory and discusses its economic and political impact on the nation. By Donald Barr Chidsey, one of the most popular history writers of his generation. 3 ...
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    16,35 €

  • Stronghold
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    'A story of friendship, a friendship that stands the strain of desertion, of betrayal, of awareness of littleness-and even at the close, when murder has been done, something survives. A story too of two youths against the times-the scene is Stonington, Connecticut, during the embargo and the War of 1812, of adventure sought in secret piloting of ships running the blockade, of t...
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    24,73 €

  • Sir Humphrey Gilbert
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    '[Sir Humphrey Gilbert] is a grand subject for a biography half as long as Chidsey’s 'Raleigh,' and Chidsey has done it well with his accus¬tomed zest.' -Cincinnatti EnquirerHumphrey Gilbert has the charm of his own that Raleigh does not share and, in spite of the paucity of materials left by Gilbert, Mr. Chidsey has brought it out admirably. We admire Raleigh more, but like G...
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    16,41 €

  • Edge of Piracy
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    It all started with a sea fight. Ezra Bond came out of the smashing set-to as the master of the 'Forbearance' and of the bewitching young Lady Helen, who was transferred to his ship from the sinking British attacker. Ezra carried Lady Helen down to St. Eustatius, that fabulous West Indies island, where the local representative of the rebellious American colonies tried to persua...
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    21,92 €

  • Singapore Passage
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    This is the story of a race from Singapore to Canton between two barques, 'The Forest of Arden' and 'The Firefly.' Both ships carry cargoes of the finest opium and the first there will make the best prices. On board the Arden are two women, Anne Mackenzie, the daughter of Sir Gordon Mackenzie, who is bound for Canton; and Shen Ti, who was kidnapped from an opium den. Only after...
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    16,54 €

  • Queen Elizabeth I
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    The politics of royal matrimony are the central thread of the life of the Virgin Queen. But this vivid portrail of Elizabeth I encompases that extravagant, exuberant age to which she gave her name, as well as her personal life. Figures in this pageant are her father, Henry VIII, Mary Stuart, Philip of Spain; her great courtiers and favorites, Essex, Drake, Raleigh, and the rest...
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    16,45 €

  • Victory at Yorktown
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Donald Barr Chidsey explores the events leading up to the surrender of Cornwallis and the end of the American Revolution. 3 ...
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    16,54 €

  • The War with Mexico
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Donald Barr Chidsey brings his amazing and widely acknowledged skills as a popular historian to bear on one of those controversial American wars-perplexing, colorful, at times brutal, often devastating. It was in protest against the war with Mexico that Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax, and wrote his famous essay 'Civil Disobedience.' In extraordinarily vivid ter...
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    16,54 €

  • The Legion of the Lost
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Toby Franklin was careful in business and even in love, but he was under orders, so what could he do when the respectable merchant to whom he was indentured told him to go as supercargo on the ship Adventure Galley, bound for Madagascar and commanded by none other than the notorious Captain Kidd?Kidd, of course, was no ordinary pirate, and his character, as Toby was to discover...
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    25,12 €

  • The Birth of the Constitution
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Donald Barr Chidsey explores the creation of the American Constitution. 3 ...
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    16,48 €

  • Andrew Jackson, Hero
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Donald Barr Chidsey brings his amazing and widely acknowledged skills as a popular historian to bear on one of those controversial American wars-perplexing, colorful, at times brutal, often devastating. It was in protest against the war with Mexico that Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax, and wrote his famous essay 'Civil Disobedience.' In extraordinarily vivid ter...
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    22,18 €

  • Panama Passage
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Panama Passage is the story of Harry Kellems, a young engineer, whose wealthy, spoiled, and pampered wife decided to join him in plague-ridden, rudimentary Panama. Panama, in those days, was no place for a sheltered woman, but with the help of Colonel Gorgas, who valued Kellems as a loyal worker, the young couple managed to find not-too-bad quarters.On the boat which brought he...
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    25,39 €

  • The Wickedest Pilgrim
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    In Plymouth harbor, a seaman rowed out to board his ship in the midnight dark. Shore leave had been very wet and he slept soundly on deck—they weren't too fussy on a pirate ship.In the morning light, the surroundings looked strange and Sal found himself among peculiar people. He had boarded, by mistake, a ship known to history as the Mayflower, on her foyage to the New Worl...
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    17,31 €

  • His Majesty’s Highwayman
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    As the tumbrel clatters down the streets of 18th-century London to the gallows at Tyburn, Tom Savage abandons all hope. His resemblance to the famous highwayman Harry Twekes is going to cost him his life. It might have been the better bargain, Tom realizes shortly, when after a spectacular rescue cued by the loveliest girl he ever saw, he finds himself confronted by Harry’s gan...
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    17,31 €

  • The War in the South
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    An informal history of the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution—when hangings were commonplace; passions were taut as strung gut; and scalding-hot tar-and-feathers were always near at hand. The American Revolution in Georgia and the Carolinas was that kind of war.It had its heroes, including the “wraith-like” Francis Marion (the Swamp Fox), Sergeant Jasper (who hero...
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    16,61 €

  • The World of Samuel Adams
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    A more unlikely Founding Father it would be hard to imagine. Samuel Adams, in appearance, was an extraordinarily ordinary man, a man unskillfully put together.Thus begins Donald Barr Chidsey’s extraordinarily readable biography of the man he describes as the grandfather of his country, the man who laid the foundation. Adams, he tells us, was America’s first machine politician, ...
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    16,54 €

  • The Great Conspiracy
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Aaron Burr was one of the most astounding and perplexing men in American history. A man who had lost the Presidency of the United States to Thomas Jefferson by only one vote in the House of Representartives, and who had himslef been Vice President, he nevertheless became notorious overnight by killing Alexander Hamilton in their famous New Jersey duel. But he went further. Burr...
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    14,30 €

  • The Day They Sank the Lusitania
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    The flaming hell that was World War I was laid bare by the brutal sinking of the Lusitania. Until then, no one -- particularly in neutral America -- was prepared for the coming holocaust. But on May 7, 1915, a German u-boat, lurking off the coast of Ireland, torpedoed the unarmed passenger ship Lusitania. The vessel sank in an incredible 18 minutes -- killing 1,195 men, women, ...
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    12,12 €

  • Marooned
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    If you like pirate novels, you'll enjoy Donald Barr Chidsey's MAROONED — a real swashbuckling adventure of buccaneering to match the best.Here are the rakish ships that fly the Jolly Roger, the men who swear by the pirates' code, the governor sworn to vengeance, and the fair maidens held for ransom. This is the story of Alan Waite, pirate and anti-pirate.Scum of the...
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    13,23 €

  • The Wild Years
    Donald Barr Chidsey / Donn O'Hara / Donn O’Hara
    On the pleasure boats of the Old Mississippi, passions ran high when men gambled for the favors of beautiful women -- and renegades carried off girls along with other loot.Disguised as a notorious outlaw, hot-blooded Dave Macdonough invaded the river rogues' hideout in a reckless attempt to destroy them. But his mission became an act of persona! vengeance when he met the lo...
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    9,43 €

  • The Tide Turns
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    In The Tide Turns, Donald Barr Chidsey, with the same sense of immediacy that made July 4, 1776, Valley Forge, and The Great Separation so successful, permits us to share the ordeals of the colonial army in New York and New Jersey during the first year of the rebellion. We see the approach of the largest fleet the British had ever assembled, the unopposed landing of a colossal ...
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    16,56 €

  • Valley Forge
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    A vividly exciting, on-the-scene account of the most crucial winter of the American Revolution.You accompany the ragged, hungry American troops as they leave Philadelphia to spend the winter at Valley Forge. You struggle up the hill, help clear the underbrush, and fell the trees to build huts and fortifications. You endure the cold and the hunger, the sickness and the boredom, ...
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    16,54 €

  • The Pipes Are Calling
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    All through the Highlands, stout Scots' hearts and hopes were high at the news that at long last the royal Stuart, their Bonnie Prince Charlie, had returned to win back the throne of England and Scotland. And none were more elated at the skirling of the bagpipes than the young Glenallan, who yearned to test his mettle against the hated English and their German-born king.Eve...
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    14,24 €

  • Buccaneer’s Blade
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    If you enjoy a novel of swashbuckling peril, of pirates, wenches, and the quest for Spanish gold, then Donald Barr Chidsey's new book is your dish! It's the story of a dashing young swordsman, Talbot Slanning, who for the love of a maid got himself into a jam with a favorite of Queen Bess, and had to flee from England for his life. So he sailed with Sir Francis Drake to...
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    13,08 €

  • Captain Crossbones
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    When George Rounsivel’s pirate band captured the niece of the Governor of the Bahamas, that young American buccaneer was in a jam. For he already shared his cabin with a jealous pirate wench who would slip a dagger into him the instant he looked at another woman.Yet he couldn’t throw this blue-blooded captive to the lustful arms of the crew. For as a sea-wolf, Rounsivel was sai...
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    14,11 €

  • The Iron Cavalier
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    Elizabethan England and the war with Spain. Plots, counterplots and secret couriers. Romance ashore and the Armada battles at sea. The whole color-filled panorama of the momentous 16th Century, its heroes and heroines, its explorers Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Hawkins, the mighty King Philip of Spain, the rival queens of England and Scotland, Elizabeth and Mary.And a swashbu...
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    13,98 €

  • The Flaming Island
    Donald Barr Chidsey
    From the moment George Heritage entered Cuban waters he was in trouble. First the Spanish coast guard shelled his vessel, then he learned his shipmates had deceived him, and finally he found himself standing against a stone wall awaiting the firing squad!After a fiery rebel señorita had snatched him from the jaws of death, the American engineer knew he couldn't return to pe...
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    13,08 €