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Real pirates : the untold story of the Whydah from slave ship to pirate ship / by Barry Clifford and Kenneth J. Kinkor with Sharon Simpson; photography by Kenneth Garrett.

Title
Real pirates : the untold story of the Whydah from slave ship to pirate ship / by Barry Clifford and Kenneth J. Kinkor with Sharon Simpson; photography by Kenneth Garrett.
Author
Clifford, Barry.
Publication
Washingon, D.C. : National Geographic, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Kinkor, Kenneth J.
  • Simpson, Sharon.
  • Garrett, Kenneth.
Description
175 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
Explores the role of the Whydah in the slave trade and discusses how it came to be a pirate ship, providing evidence of what life was like for pirates in the Caribbean Area in the 18th century through artifiacts found on the wrecks of pirate ships.
Alternative Title
Untold story of the Whydah from slave ship to pirate ship
Subject
  • Whidah (Ship)
  • 1700-1799
  • Pirates > Caribbean Area > History > 18th century
  • Buccaneers > History > 18th century
  • Slave trade > Africa > History
  • Pirates > History
  • Shipwrecks > Cape Cod
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "National Geographic official companion book to the exhibition"--Cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 174).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Caribbean world in 1716 -- Capturing the Whydah -- The pirate lfie -- The Whydah lost & found.
ISBN
  • 9781426202629 (pbk.)
  • 1426202628 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007281578
OCLC
180193971
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library