Black Sail

Download Black Sail full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Black Sail ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Black Jacks

Author : W. Jeffrey. Bolster
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674028473
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Jacks by : W. Jeffrey. Bolster

Download or read book Black Jacks written by W. Jeffrey. Bolster and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865. Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters. They sailed in whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were slaves, forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most were free men, seeking liberty and economic opportunity aboard ship.Bolster brings an intimate understanding of the sea to this extraordinary chapter in the formation of black America. Because of their unusual mobility, sailors were the eyes and ears to worlds beyond the limited horizon of black communities ashore. Sometimes helping to smuggle slaves to freedom, they were more often a unique conduit for news and information of concern to blacks.But for all its opportunities, life at sea was difficult. Blacks actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture shared by all seamen, but were often outsiders within it. Capturing that tension, Black Jacks examines not only how common experiences drew black and white sailors together--even as deeply internalized prejudices drove them apart--but also how the meaning of race aboard ship changed with time. Bolster traces the story to the end of the Civil War, when emancipated blacks began to be systematically excluded from maritime work. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America.An epic tale of the rise and fall of black seafaring, Black Jacks is African Americans' freedom story presented from a fresh perspective.

Black Sail

Author : Rich Zahradnik
Publisher : Epicenter Press
ISBN 13 : 1603812121
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Sail by : Rich Zahradnik

Download or read book Black Sail written by Rich Zahradnik and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coleridge Taylor is covering Operation Sail. A police reporter, he'd rather do real stories, and NYC has plenty in July 1976. When a dead housewife is fished out of the harbor wearing bricks of heroin, Taylor believes he's stumbled upon a war between drug cartels. Flanked by his ex-cop girlfriend, he pursues his big story but sees it grow more twisted and deadly by the hour.

Black Sails 1715

Author : Allen Balogh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692704301
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Sails 1715 by : Allen Balogh

Download or read book Black Sails 1715 written by Allen Balogh and published by . This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates, slaves and voodoo follow Mobutu, an African chieftain, into the darkness of the 17th century Triangular Trade slave route. Lucrative agreements are made with Edward Colston, a member of British Parliament and a slave trader. Packed away in the hold of Colston's ship, slaves are to be traded in the Caribbean islands. Then catastrophe hits Port Royal, Jamaica in 1692. Pandemonium, witchcraft, and death await those trapped in the 'wickedest city on earth.' At the center of the story is Mobutu, an African chieftain who exchanges his tribesmen for personal wealth and power---and trades his soul to reign on the high seas as Black Caesar. Mobutu's son Mobu, the African lovers of Wyla and Jabari, and Gina Nanny, wise healer and leader of outcast slaves in the Blue Mountains, along with other assorted slaves, pirates, witches and rogues leap to life in this novel. Goat with the Glass Eye is a novel in the Black Sails 1715 Black and Gold series. Recreating authentic historic events, the authors combine fact, myth, legend, and mysticism that span both Africa and the early Americas. Slavery, piracy, and love affairs weave together with hoodoo and black magic to spin a tale rooted in truth but sparkling with the fantastical. Meanwhile, the mystical "goat with the glass eye" keenly watches every move. Is he diabolical, or an agent of justice?

Beneath Black Sails

Author : Clare Sager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (321 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Beneath Black Sails by : Clare Sager

Download or read book Beneath Black Sails written by Clare Sager and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes it takes a pirate to catch a pirate. With weather magic on her side, Lady Vice is the bane of the high seas, but she isn't captain of her own ship. Yet. If she can persuade her captain to give her a command, she'll be in charge of her own fate. To pay off his family's debts, Knigh Blackwood hunts pirates for the Royal Navy. And he's damn good at it. When the bounty on Lady Vice increases, he's determined to make her face justice, even if that means using unorthodox methods. Forced to work together, neither can deny their mutual attraction. As they face battles at sea and schemes aboard their ship, they discover hints about a long-lost treasure that could be the answer to both their problems. But treasure isn't the only thing buried. Secrets best forgotten lie in wait that could blast them apart. And the closer Vice and Knigh grow, the greater the threat - to her freedom and to his family. Because for one to succeed, the other must fail. If you love cunning heroes, feisty heroines, and enemies to lovers romance, you'll love this new adult fantasy series that's perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas and Miranda Honfleur. Buy Beneath Black Sails today to set sail for rum-drenched adventures in a world where flags can lie, X marks the spot, and loyalties shift more than sand. As you might expect from pirates, these stories include mild cussing and spicy encounters. Book 0 - Across Dark Seas - Out now! Book 1 - Beneath Black Sails - Coming April 2020! Book 2 - Against Dark Tides - Coming 2020! Book 3 - Under Black Skies - Coming 2020! Book 4 - Through Dark Storms - Coming 2020!

Flint and Silver

Author : John Drake
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141659275X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Flint and Silver by : John Drake

Download or read book Flint and Silver written by John Drake and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating and original prequel to "Treasure Island" that will delight fans of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic as well as fans of those "other" pirates of the Caribbean.

Reversing Sail

Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110849871X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Reversing Sail by : Michael A. Gomez

Download or read book Reversing Sail written by Michael A. Gomez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.

Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail

Author : Jacqueline Nassy Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826411
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail by : Jacqueline Nassy Brown

Download or read book Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail written by Jacqueline Nassy Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool's own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to British slave trading and imperialism. This ethnography also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. It captures the contradictions of diaspora in postcolonial Liverpool, where African and Afro-Caribbean heritages and transnational linkages with Black America both contribute to and compete with the local as a basis for authentic racial identity. Crisscrossing historical periods, rhetorical modes, and academic genres, the book focuses singularly on "place," enabling its most radical move: its analysis of Black racial politics as enactments of English cultural premises. The insistent focus on English culture implies a further twist. Just as Blacks are racialized through appeals to their assumed Afro-Caribbean and African cultures, so too has Liverpool--an Irish, working-class city whose expansive port faces the world beyond Britain--long been beyond the pale of dominant notions of authentic Englishness. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail studies "race" through clashing constructions of "Liverpool."

The Black Sail

Author : Florence Bennett Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Black Sail by : Florence Bennett Anderson

Download or read book The Black Sail written by Florence Bennett Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 163149211X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates by : Eric Jay Dolin

Download or read book Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry” (Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle). Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. “Deftly blending scholarship and drama” (Richard Zacks), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. Through engrossing episodes of roguish glamour and extreme brutality, Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period, among them the towering Blackbeard, the ill-fated Captain Kidd, and sadistic Edward Low, who delighted in torturing his prey. Upending popular misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Black Flags, Blue Waters is a “tour de force history” (Michael Pierce, Midwestern Rewind) of the seafaring outlaws whose raids reflect the precarious nature of American colonial life.

Black Ships Before Troy

Author : Rosemary Sutcliff
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 055349483X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Ships Before Troy by : Rosemary Sutcliff

Download or read book Black Ships Before Troy written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Greek myth fans, those who can’t get enough of the D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, and readers who have aged out of Rick Riordan, this classroom staple and mythology classic is perfect for learning about the ancient myths! As the gods and goddesses of Olympus scheme, the ancient world is thrown into turmoil when Helen, the most beautiful woman in all of Greece, is stolen away by her Trojan love. Inflamed by jealousy, the Greek king seeks lethal vengeance and sends his black war ships to descend on the city of Troy. In the siege that follows, history’s greatest heroes, from Ajax to Achilles to Odysseus, are forged in combat, and the brutal costs of passion, pride, and revenge must be paid. In the end, the whims of the gods, the cunning of the warriors, and a great wooden horse will decide who emerges victorious. Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time and Rosemary Sutcliff's retelling of the classic saga embodies all of the astonishing drama, romance, and intrigue of ancient Greece. Don’t miss The Wanderings of Odysseus, the companion to Black Ships Before Troy, and follow Odysseus on his adventure home. This book has been selected as a Common Core State Standards Text Exemplar (Grades 6-8, Stories) in Appendix B.

Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes

Author : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes by : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)

Download or read book Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes written by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Atomic Hamburger

Author : Federico Sanchez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483651010
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Atomic Hamburger by : Federico Sanchez

Download or read book The Atomic Hamburger written by Federico Sanchez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boyers, a sheepherding family in Idaho decide to move into the fast food business when the Federal lands they used to graze their sheep are turned into a Federal nuclear energy research center. Hence the name of their diner, The Atomic Hamburger. Hoping to become rich with the expected economic boom of the nuclear research facility, their diner becomes the main place where the characters meet and interact. A young man, Howard McCracken, after the suicide of his mother, decides to become a psychiatrist and he ends up on the front-lines of World War II working under General Patton Two young nuclear scientists mentored by Einstein go to Idaho to work in the nuclear research facilities and end up lunching at The Atomic Hamburger and... The novel focuses on the war periods of World War II, Korea and Vietnam as it follows several families from the 1920s through the 1970s while it explores mental disorders and posttraumattic stress as it relates to combat experience and other situations and their relations to suicide.

The Mortal Sea

Author : W. Jeffrey Bolster
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674070461
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Mortal Sea by : W. Jeffrey Bolster

Download or read book The Mortal Sea written by W. Jeffrey Bolster and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. While overfishing is often thought of as a contemporary problem, Bolster reveals that humans were transforming the sea long before factory trawlers turned fishing from a handliner's art into an industrial enterprise. The western Atlantic's legendary fishing banks, stretching from Cape Cod to Newfoundland, have attracted fishermen for more than five hundred years. Bolster follows the effects of this siren's song from its medieval European origins to the advent of industrialized fishing in American waters at the beginning of the twentieth century. Blending marine biology, ecological insight, and a remarkable cast of characters, from notable explorers to scientists to an army of unknown fishermen, Bolster tells a story that is both ecological and human: the prelude to an environmental disaster. Over generations, harvesters created a quiet catastrophe as the sea could no longer renew itself. Bolster writes in the hope that the intimate relationship humans have long had with the ocean, and the species that live within it, can be restored for future generations.

Black Ships

Author : Jo Graham
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316029149
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Ships by : Jo Graham

Download or read book Black Ships written by Jo Graham and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Haunting and bittersweet, lush and vivid, this extraordinary story has lived with me since I first read it." -- Naomi Novik, author of His Majesty's Dragon The world is ending. One by one the mighty cities are falling, to earthquakes, to flood, to raiders on both land and sea. In a time of war and doubt, Gull is an oracle. Daughter of a slave taken from fallen Troy, chosen at the age of seven to be the voice of the Lady of the Dead, it is her destiny to counsel kings. When nine black ships appear, captained by an exiled Trojan prince, Gull must decide between the life she has been destined for and the most perilous adventure -- to join the remnant of her mother's people in their desperate flight. From the doomed bastions of the City of Pirates to the temples of Byblos, from the intrigues of the Egyptian court to the haunted caves beneath Mount Vesuvius, only Gull can guide Prince Aeneas on his quest, and only she can dare the gates of the Underworld itself to lead him to his destiny. In the last shadowed days of the Age of Bronze, one woman dreams of the world beginning anew. This is her story.

Sail Away

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481430858
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sail Away by : Langston Hughes

Download or read book Sail Away written by Langston Hughes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan. The great African American poet Langston Hughes penned poem after poem about the majesty of the sea, and the great African American artist Ashley Bryan, who’s spent more than half his life on a small island, is as drawn to the sea as much as he draws the sea. Their talents combine in this windswept collection of illustrated poems—from “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” to “Seascape,” from “Sea Calm” to “Sea Charm”—that celebrates all things oceanic.

The Best American Short Stories 2020

Author : Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher : Best American Series (R)
ISBN 13 : 1328485366
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Best American Short Stories 2020 by : Curtis Sittenfeld

Download or read book The Best American Short Stories 2020 written by Curtis Sittenfeld and published by Best American Series (R). This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld selects the twenty best short stories of the year.

The End of Calico Jack

Author : Eddie Jones
Publisher : Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas
ISBN 13 : 1645269000
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (452 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The End of Calico Jack by : Eddie Jones

Download or read book The End of Calico Jack written by Eddie Jones and published by Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Selah Award Winner for YA Literature - In this YA pirate tale, award-winning author Eddie Jones blends action, adventure, and humor into a fictional retelling of the pirate exploits of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read. While searching for rumored treasure in a cave on Coffin Cay, a small island off the southwestern tip of Haiti (Hispaniola), Ricky suffers an absence seizure. During his last trance-like episode, Ricky uncovered a treasure from the Nuestra Señora de Riqueza, a vessel in an armada of ships sailing the Spanish Main. Now back on Coffin Cay with his parents, Ricky hunts for the treasure he found in the cave over three hundred years earlier during his trip back to pirate land. The End of Calico Jack is a fictional retelling of the pirate escapades of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read. The story is based on historical research of the life of "Calico Jack" John Rackham. Some liberties have been taken in the telling of the story, but many of the events reflect what historians believed happened to Jack, Mary, and Anne. Also, in real life those who suffer absence seizures may appear to be in a trance but cannot recall what happens during their episode. The book includes a PIRATE MAP of Calico Jack's sailing routes and the ports he visited. Parents can trust the Caribbean Chronicles Series. There is no sexual dialogue or situations, violence, or strong language, only positive moral values and a wee little bit of humor. :) We hope you enjoy these pirate books for young adults, teens, and older kids.