Name: Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
ISBN: 9781631496226

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

Eric Jay Dolin

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: Sep 17th, 2019
Pages: 416
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 1.10in - 0.72lb
EAN: 9781631496226
Categories: • Maritime History & Piracy• United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)• Modern - 17th Century

About the Author

Dolin, Eric Jay: - Eric Jay Dolin is the best-selling and award-winning author of numerous works in maritime history, including Leviathan, Rebels at Sea, and Black Flags, Blue Waters. He lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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An entertaining romp across the oceans that shows how piracy is an inseparable element of our past.... Mr. Dolin has a keen eye for detail and the telling episode. Readers will learn fascinating tidbits of language, habits and cultural assimilation.--Rinker Buck, Wall Street Journal

A masterly and vivid account of the pirates who operated around America's coasts in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Using an impressive array of sources, Eric Jay Dolin throws a fresh light on familiar stories, unearths some new and surprising facts, and skillfully sets the exploits of a notorious generation of pirates in their historical context.--David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag

Gripping.... Dolin, who has previously written popular narratives about whaling, the fur trade and opium trafficking, finds another can't-miss subject in the adventures of Kidd, Bonnet, Blackbeard and their ilk. Dolin makes it fresh by focusing on the interaction between pirates and the British colonies. His evidence is irrefutable: pirate cash and stolen goods were invaluable to colonial ports.--Anne Bartlett, BookPage

If you've never read Dolin before, prepare to have a new favorite historian.--Jeff Guinn, author of The Road to Jonestown

As he did with whales and lighthouses, Eric Jay Dolin gives us another sea-meets-shore epic wrapped in a swashbuckling narrative.... A fascinating adventure story filled with rogues, rascals, and ruthless renegades, this is stirring history that reads like a novel.--Stephen Puleo, author of Dark Tide

Black Flags, Blue Waters is rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry, but it also hews to the facts as they are known about the pirate lives and activities.... Dolin's book is not only a fine entertainment, but it draws the pirate in a clear light.--Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle

Elegantly written.... Black Flags, Blue Waters is distinctive and an excellent addition to this subdivision of maritime history.--Louis Arthur Norton, Sea History

A compelling examination of the economics, geopolitics, and strong?sometimes mad?personalities that fueled the great age of New World piracy. Black Flags, Blue Waters illuminates a fascinating era of maritime history but also the dark actions of desperate men.--Dean King, author of Skeletons on the Zahara

Eric Jay Dolin has written a tour de force history of this period in American history. Black Flags, Blue Waters brings to life the famous, the not-so-famous, and the infamous of the ranks of American pirates during the... Golden Age [of Piracy].--Michael Pierce, Midwestern Rewind

In Black Flags, Blue Waters, Eric Jay Dolin presents the surprising and enthralling Age of Pirates that was more bloody than golden. In the process, he proves again that skillfully presented narrative nonfiction is even more gripping than swashbuckling mythology. If you've never read Dolin before, prepare to have a new favorite historian.--Jeff Guinn, author of The Road to Jonestown