| Title | : | Captain William Kidd and others of the Buccaneers |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | John Abbott |
| Release | : | 2018-04-02 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | History, Books |
| Size | : | 673635 |
| There can scarcely anything be found in the literature of our language, more wild and wonderful, than the narrative contained in this volume. The extraordinary career of Captain Kidd, a New-York merchant, the demoniac feats of those fiends in human form, Bonnet, Barthelemy, and Lolonois; the romantic history of the innocent female pirate Mary Read, and of the termagant Anne Bonney; the amazing career of Sir Henry Morgan, and the fanaticism of Montbar, scarcely surpassed by that of Mohammed or Loyola, combine in creating a story, which the imagination of Dickens or Dumas could scarcely rival... |
