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Pirates, privateers, & rebel raiders of the Carolina coast

Title
Pirates, privateers, & rebel raiders of the Carolina coast / Lindley S. Butler.
Author
Butler, Lindley S.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description
xvi, 275 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
"Lindley Butler offers biographical portraits of some of the most famous pirates, privateers, and naval raiders to ply the Carolina waters. Covering 150 years, from the golden age of piracy in the 1700s to the extraordinary transformation of naval warfare ushered in by the Civil War, Butler sketches the lives of eight characters."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative Title
Pirates, privateers, and rebel raiders of the Carolina coast
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-264) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction: The World of Pirates, Privateers, and Naval Raiders -- 2. Blackbeard: The Queen Anne's Revenge Scourges the Carolinas -- 3. Stede Bonnet: The Gentleman Pirate of the Royal James -- 4. Otway Burns: The Snap Dragon Sweeps the Western Atlantic -- 5. Johnston Blakeley: The Wasp Ravages the English Channel -- 6. James W. Cooke: The Albemarle Clears the Roanoke -- 7. John N. Maffitt: The Florida Ranges the Atlantic -- 8. John Taylor Wood: The Night Raider Seizes the Underwriter -- 9. James T. Waddell: The Shenandoah Masters the North Pacific.
ISBN
  • 0807825530 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807848638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99086288
OCLC
  • ocm43296760
  • SCSB-3868714
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries