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Scattergoods and Swaggering Rascals

Scattergoods and Swaggering Rascals

Scattergoods and Swaggering Rascals

E.T. Fox / E.TFox

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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2015
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9781326486839
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A documentary history of English pirates in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, detailing the lives of notorious pirates such as John Ward, Clinton Atkinson, and Henry Mainwaring. Edited and footnoted transcriptions of original sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts.

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