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CAPTURED BY PIRATES eBook Series

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  • Captain Barnabas Lincoln's True Life Account (1822)

    by Barnabas Lincoln ...
    Series series CAPTURED BY PIRATES
    The pirates of Somalia have given new relevance to old accounts of being captured by pirates. In 1821, Captain Barnabas Lincoln of Hingham Massachusetts was captured by pirates in the Caribbean, left with his men on a desert island and lived to tell the tale. Part "Treasure Island", part "Robinson Crusoe", his story combines adventure and history in a true-life tale that rivals the liveliest ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Pirate Hunters

    Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

    by Robert Kurson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow DiversFinding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rose Hall's White Witch

    The Legend Of Annie Palmer

    by Mike Henry ...
    “There have been many versions of this legend of Rose Hall story—some good, some not so good—but this one is definitely the best…this is what happens when history and the best of fiction meet.”‘Rose Hall’s White Witch: The Legend of Annie Palmer’ crafts the truths of slavery with the age-old stories of one of the most memorable characters in Jamaica’s history – Annie Palmer. The themes of betrayal ... Read more

    $7.28 CAD

  • The Making of a Jamaican Don

    Spanner’S Views on Dons, Corrupt Politicians, and Public Officials

    by Clifton Cameron ...
    Jamaican dons see themselves as leaders, protectors, and nearly God-like figures. They see themselves as bigger than even the Prime Minister; with the resources they have, they are not afraid of anyone. In The Making of a Jamaican Don, author Clifton Cameron tells the story of these Jamaican donstheir history, and the role they play in the governing of the Caribbean country.This story is told ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Sweetness and Power

    The Place of Sugar in Modern History

    by Sidney W. Mintz ...
    A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society

    by Brian Moore, B.W. Higman, Carl C. Campbell, Patrick Bryan ...
    The book is divided into two broad sections: In Slavery and Freedom, which features critical research on slavery and post-emancipation society, and Gender Paradigms. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Walking on Fire

    Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance

    by Beverly Bell ...
    Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture, rape, abuse, illegal arrest, disappearance, and assassination.Beverly Bell, an activist and an expert ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Insurgent Cuba

    Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

    by Ada Ferrer ...
    In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe’s oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement.Ada Ferrer examines the participation of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Legendary Pirates: The Life and Legacy of Captain Henry Morgan

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes historic illustrations depicting Morgan and important events in his life.*Includes excerpts from an account of Morgan's piracy written by his ship's surgeon.*Analyzes Morgan's legacy and current efforts to find some of his sunken pirate ships.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. The people who have lived outside the boundaries of normal societies ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

    by Herbert S. Klein, Ben Vinson, III ...
    This is an original survey of the economic and social history of slavery of the Afro-American experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus of the book is on the Portuguese, Spanish, and French-speaking regions of continental America and the Caribbean. It analyzes the latest research on urban and rural slavery and on the African and Afro-American experience under these regimes. It ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • 101 Amazing Pirate Facts

    by Children's History Press, Oscar Arias ...
    Children's History press is proud to present "101 Amazing Pirate Facts".Here you will find tons of pirate trivia. You will learn all about the life and times of pirates, buccaneers, privateers and corsairs in the age of sail.You will learn all about pirate slang, pirate weapons, and even why pirates often wore earrings!Plenty of pirate pictures and even a quiz to test your knowledge of all things ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Dictator Next Door

    The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945

    by Eric Paul Roorda ...
    Series series American encounters/global interactions
    The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following Rafael Trujillo’s seizure of power in 1930. Examining the transition from the noninterventionist ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD