Product Description: "A thrillingly exhilarating adventure and glorious coming-of-age story, rich in both imagination and history, in perception and truth.  I couldn't put the book down."—Donald SutherlandNova Scotia, 1952. Not exactly the place you’d expect to run into pirates...read more

Product Description: For as long as they’ve existed, pirates have conjured up visions of high-seas adventure and skullduggery, sea chases and bloody battles, dangerous coastal lairs and buried treasure. Rightly so, for ever since ships have carried valuable cargo, pirates have enraged monarchs and struck terror into the hearts of honest seamen with their willingness to risk life and limb for an undeserved share of the riches...read more

Product Description: William Gilkerson takes the broad, sweeping history of the human race and puts it in story and pictures that are at once meaningful, sometimes profound, and always funny. His pen takes us from cave men with rocks, to modern bombs and rockets, and depicts the chaos throughout...read more

In 1952 off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, fierce winds force a boat into port. The sailor of the boat is the eccentric Captain Charles Johnson, who then takes up residence at the small inn run by a young boy, Jim, and his mother. Who is this man who tells such vivid stories about sailing on a pirate ship? And how can he possibly know so much?

Product Description:      Five boyhood friends build their own boat and set off through uncharted seas on a magical journey of adventure and self-discovery.

Product Description: Completing a two-volume set, this book covers the pistols, muskets, combustibles and small cannon used aboard American and European fighting ships, 1626-1826. There are 200 photos plus technical and historical drawings.

Product Description: An all-encompassing study of naval armament under fighting sail. This first volume covers axes, pikes and fighting blades in use between 1626 and 1826 - tracing their development in the navies of England and Northern Europe through that of the United States...read more

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