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Under the Black Flag
The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Written by David Cordingly
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a... Read more >
The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Written by David Cordingly
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a... Read more >
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Cuba
La lucha por la libertad
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $20.00
La isla de Cuba fue, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, un territorio clave para el control del tráfico marítimo de las rutas hacia el Nuevo Mundo. Su privilegiada situación geográfica y la mezcla de culturas y tradiciones han hecho de esta pequeña isla un lugar esencial en el Caribe... Read more >
La lucha por la libertad
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $20.00
La isla de Cuba fue, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, un territorio clave para el control del tráfico marítimo de las rutas hacia el Nuevo Mundo. Su privilegiada situación geográfica y la mezcla de culturas y tradiciones han hecho de esta pequeña isla un lugar esencial en el Caribe... Read more >
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Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $27.95
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $27.95
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
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Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $13.99
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $13.99
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
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Nocturno de La Habana
Como la mafia se hizo con Cuba y la acabo perdiendo en la revolucion
Written by T.J English
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
Para los líderes de los bajos fondos Meyer Lansky y Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Cuba era la mejor esperanza para el futuro del crimen organizado norteamericano en los años posteriores a la Prohibición. En la década de 1950, la mafia —con el gobierno de Fulgencio Batista en su bolsillo— era la dueña... Read more >
Como la mafia se hizo con Cuba y la acabo perdiendo en la revolucion
Written by T.J English
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2012
Price: $11.99
Para los líderes de los bajos fondos Meyer Lansky y Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Cuba era la mejor esperanza para el futuro del crimen organizado norteamericano en los años posteriores a la Prohibición. En la década de 1950, la mafia —con el gobierno de Fulgencio Batista en su bolsillo— era la dueña... Read more >
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Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Written by David Cordingly
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $18.00
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went... Read more >
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Written by David Cordingly
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $18.00
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went... Read more >
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Cuban Counterpoint
Written by Random House
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $22.99
Tobacco and sugar have made the history, the character, and the economy of Cuba. In this entertaining book, packed with fascinating lore, scholarship in its most humane form, and the flavor of Fernando Ortiz’s exceedingly civilized and humorous personality, the two important crops are seen from many points of view. Their... Read more >
Written by Random House
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2012
Price: $22.99
Tobacco and sugar have made the history, the character, and the economy of Cuba. In this entertaining book, packed with fascinating lore, scholarship in its most humane form, and the flavor of Fernando Ortiz’s exceedingly civilized and humorous personality, the two important crops are seen from many points of view. Their... Read more >
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Island Possessed
Written by Katherine Dunham
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2012
Price: $13.99
Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people... Read more >
Written by Katherine Dunham
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 16, 2012
Price: $13.99
Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people... Read more >
Grenada 1983
Written by Lee Russell
Illustrated by Paul Hannon
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $13.95
On 21 October 1983, following the death of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the leaders of the six small nations forming the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States voted to intervene militarily to restore order in Grenada. As none possessed the forces necessary to carry out a successful operation, the United States, fearing... Read more >
Written by Lee Russell
Illustrated by Paul Hannon
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $13.95
On 21 October 1983, following the death of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, the leaders of the six small nations forming the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States voted to intervene militarily to restore order in Grenada. As none possessed the forces necessary to carry out a successful operation, the United States, fearing... Read more >
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El manana
Memorias de un exodo cubano
Written by Mirta Ojito
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $9.99
En esta memoria sobre una niña, dos culturas y una lucha por la libertad, la periodista Mirta Ojito, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, vuelve al evento en su adolescencia que cambió su vida para siempre: el éxodo en el 1980 de más de 125.000 cubanos, mejor conocido como el puente marítimo del... Read more >
Memorias de un exodo cubano
Written by Mirta Ojito
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2011
Price: $9.99
En esta memoria sobre una niña, dos culturas y una lucha por la libertad, la periodista Mirta Ojito, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, vuelve al evento en su adolescencia que cambió su vida para siempre: el éxodo en el 1980 de más de 125.000 cubanos, mejor conocido como el puente marítimo del... Read more >
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Cuba TV
Dos Canales
Written by Simone Lueck
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $34.95
During broadcast hours, all TVs in Cuba are on, no matter if they are being watch or just serving as background noise. The actual television sets are outdated relics imported from America or Russia close to twenty years ago. Convulsing static pictures in off-color hues, the sets are jury-rigged with computer... Read more >
Dos Canales
Written by Simone Lueck
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $34.95
During broadcast hours, all TVs in Cuba are on, no matter if they are being watch or just serving as background noise. The actual television sets are outdated relics imported from America or Russia close to twenty years ago. Convulsing static pictures in off-color hues, the sets are jury-rigged with computer... Read more >
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Nocturno de La Habana
Como la mafia se hizo con Cuba y la acabo perdiendo en la revolucion
Written by T.J English
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $16.00
Para los líderes de los bajos fondos Meyer Lansky y Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Cuba era la mejor esperanza para el futuro del crimen organizado norteamericano en los años posteriores a la Prohibición. En la década de 1950, la mafia —con el gobierno de Fulgencio Batista en su bolsillo— era la dueña... Read more >
Como la mafia se hizo con Cuba y la acabo perdiendo en la revolucion
Written by T.J English
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $16.00
Para los líderes de los bajos fondos Meyer Lansky y Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Cuba era la mejor esperanza para el futuro del crimen organizado norteamericano en los años posteriores a la Prohibición. En la década de 1950, la mafia —con el gobierno de Fulgencio Batista en su bolsillo— era la dueña... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Written by David Cordingly
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $13.99
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went... Read more >
The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers
Written by David Cordingly
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 17, 2011
Price: $13.99
From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Havana Real
One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
Written by Yoani Sanchez
Translated by M. J. Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $16.95
She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation.
Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about... Read more >
One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
Written by Yoani Sanchez
Translated by M. J. Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $16.95
She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation.
Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Havana Real
One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
Written by Yoani Sanchez
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $16.95
She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation.
Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about... Read more >
One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
Written by Yoani Sanchez
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $16.95
She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation.
Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Operacion Pedro Pan
Written by Yvonne Conde
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2011
Price: $11.99
Poco después de establecer su dictadura en 1959, y el caos social que resultó de la misma, corrieron rumores que Fidel Castro decretaría que la potestad de todos los niños cubanos sería asumida por el estado. El terror ocasionado por esta posibilidad impulsó a miles de padres desesperados a enviar a... Read more >
Written by Yvonne Conde
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2011
Price: $11.99
Poco después de establecer su dictadura en 1959, y el caos social que resultó de la misma, corrieron rumores que Fidel Castro decretaría que la potestad de todos los niños cubanos sería asumida por el estado. El terror ocasionado por esta posibilidad impulsó a miles de padres desesperados a enviar a... Read more >
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Islands of Resistance
Puerto Rico, Vieques, and U.S. Policy
Written by Mario Murillo
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship between Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.: the... Read more >
Puerto Rico, Vieques, and U.S. Policy
Written by Mario Murillo
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
While 1998 marked the 100th anniversary of the United States' invasion and takeover of Puerto Rico, it wasn't until 1999 that the island's political movements reappeared on the radar screen of the American people. That year, two major developments occurred that transformed the relationship between Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.: the... Read more >
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Masters of War
Latin America and U.S. Agression From the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years
Written by Clara Nieto
Translated by Chris Brandt
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
In Masters of War, Clara Nieto adeptly presents the parallel histories of the countries of Latin America, histories that are intertwined, each reflecting the United States’ "coherent policy of intervention" set into motion by the Monroe Doctrine. As the value of this continued policy comes increasingly into question, Nieto argues for... Read more >
Latin America and U.S. Agression From the Cuban Revolution Through the Clinton Years
Written by Clara Nieto
Translated by Chris Brandt
Foreword by Howard Zinn
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
In Masters of War, Clara Nieto adeptly presents the parallel histories of the countries of Latin America, histories that are intertwined, each reflecting the United States’ "coherent policy of intervention" set into motion by the Monroe Doctrine. As the value of this continued policy comes increasingly into question, Nieto argues for... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Notes From the Last Testament
The Struggle for Haiti
Written by Michael Deibert
Prologue by Ti Goave
Introduction by Raoul Peck
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher, Deibert traces the rupturing of the social-democratic coalition that originally brought Aristide to power... Read more >
The Struggle for Haiti
Written by Michael Deibert
Prologue by Ti Goave
Introduction by Raoul Peck
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher, Deibert traces the rupturing of the social-democratic coalition that originally brought Aristide to power... Read more >
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The Middle Passage
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2010
Price: $11.99
In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and... Read more >
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2010
Price: $11.99
In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism and... Read more >
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The Rastafarians
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Written by Leonard Barrett
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $19.00
The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to... Read more >
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Written by Leonard Barrett
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $19.00
The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians is an important contribution to... Read more >
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Un asunto sensible
Tres historias cubanas de crimen y traición
Written by Miguel Barroso
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $19.95
A Sensible Affair is based upon the assassination of four communist students in Cuba during the Batista era. Barroso takes us through the political intrigue, secrecy, and violence of the Fidel Castro regime and a high profile trial for dark, political reasons. Read more >
Tres historias cubanas de crimen y traición
Written by Miguel Barroso
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2010
Price: $19.95
A Sensible Affair is based upon the assassination of four communist students in Cuba during the Batista era. Barroso takes us through the political intrigue, secrecy, and violence of the Fidel Castro regime and a high profile trial for dark, political reasons. Read more >
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Empire of Blue Water
Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
Written by Stephan Talty
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $16.00
A May 2007 Book Sense Pick
“Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean will sate even fickle Jack Sparrow fans. . . . A pleasure to read from bow to stern.”
—Entertainment Weekly
The passion and violence of the age of exploration and empire come to vivid life in this story... Read more >
Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
Written by Stephan Talty
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2008
Price: $16.00
A May 2007 Book Sense Pick
“Talty’s vigorous history of seventeenth-century pirates of the Caribbean will sate even fickle Jack Sparrow fans. . . . A pleasure to read from bow to stern.”
—Entertainment Weekly
The passion and violence of the age of exploration and empire come to vivid life in this story... Read more >
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The Boys from Dolores
Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile
Written by Patrick Symmes
Format: eBook, 300 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $11.99
From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement... Read more >
Fidel Castro's Classmates from Revolution to Exile
Written by Patrick Symmes
Format: eBook, 300 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $11.99
From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement... Read more >
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Empire of Blue Water
Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
Written by Stephan Talty
Read by John H. Mayer
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $17.50
He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades... Read more >
Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
Written by Stephan Talty
Read by John H. Mayer
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $17.50
He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades... Read more >
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