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An entrancing tale of piracy colored with gold, treachery and double-dealing (Portland Press Herald), Pulitzer Prize-finalist Colin Woodward's The Republic of Pirates is the historical biography of the exploits of infamous Caribbean buccaneers.
In the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates...
In the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates...
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La Última libertad humana: camino a la redención es una desgarradora historia sobre la batalla de Víctor con el abuso infantil, la inmigración, la pobreza, las pandillas y la prisión. En estas memorias, Víctor narra sus experiencias como niño inmigrante, creciendo en la pobreza en El Paso, Texas. Cuenta que fue arrestado cuando era un adolescente de dieciséis años y juzgado en un tribunal de adultos por un asesinato cometido por uno de sus...
3) Prison Notes
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It is a book that talks about the emergence of self-defense groups in an indigenous community on the coast of Michoacan, its disarmament and the description of life in a federal prison, chilling stories confessed by criminals who belonged to cartels. It is a book that helped the author not to fall into despair and maintain his posture and his ideals firmly.
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Sinopsis Una muerte injusta, trata sobre la vida de un hombre clave, actor central de la serie Calor Humano. Es una obra breve, con anexos muy interesantes, cargados emocionalmente, que exploran la identidad, el sacrificio y la búsqueda de un propósito mayor. La narrativa genera conexión con los lectores desde las primeras palabras. Como se menciona a lo largo de sus publicaciones, el desarrollo personal de algunos, y dilemas que cuestionan los...
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This unique book covers the author, Clay Blair Jr., and Robert Marx's diving adventures from the search for the Monitor off of Cape Hatteras, to the discovery of the Spanish treasure galleon "El Matanzero" off the coast of Yucatan. This book is also a practical guide for those skin divers who want to search for greater rewards: how to dig on a wreck and identify finds. The appendix includes extracts of 10 documents from the Archives of the Indies,...
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Described in graphic & amusing detail, making a living from the sea. The artistic Ms. Hadman went to Alaska in 1938 to paint and draw, but while there met and married a fisherman in the Southeast. Here she tells of their isolated life in the village of Craig, and later in Sitka (hardly a metropolis then, either); of how she too became fisherfolk and a native, and how the War affected them and their neighbors.
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COMMANDER Gordon McGowan, cast in the role of master of a three-masted bark by order of the U.S. Coast Guard, found himself short on square rigged sailing knowledge and long on re-fitting problems when faced with transforming a battered German prize of war, the Horst Wessel, into a well-found Coast Guard training ship, the Eagle. The period was the end of the Second World War; the place was bomb-shattered Bremerhaven. In the SKIPPER AND THE EAGLE...
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Women Pirates. There is an old superstition among sailors that women at sea bring bad luck. Despite this, many women have proved their seafaring skills. When we think of Pirates, we have a tendency to think of masculine men. But did you know that the most successful pirate of all time was a woman? Neither the Chinese, British or Portuguese navies could stop her. In this delighful short book author Anna Myers takes a look at the lives of eight wicked...
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“The True Adventures of a Vagabond” is the story of a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y. without a father and learning firsthand street sense where nothing comes easy for survival in a big city and that would, curiously and eventually come in handy in his street-smart career as a Special Agent. His early years unwittingly started the chain of life’s events that would lead him to many foreign countries and meeting some of the most powerful...
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During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against Americans, spied deep into enemy territory, and was influential...
11) You can't win
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You Can't Win, the beloved memoir of real lowdown Americana by criminal hobo Jack Black, was first published in 1926, then reprinted in 1988 by Adam Parfrey's Amok Press, featuring an introduction by William S. Burroughs.
After its Amok Press edition went out of print, You Can't Win found popularity once again with the AK Press edition.
Feral House's new version will take this classic American narrative a lot further,
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This book tells the story of the extraordinary life of a man from North London, from 1960 to 2020. He battles his way through life, mostly in a catastrophic manner. To the reader he openly admits his faults and mistakes, from violence, cocaine, sexual differences, prison, and to Northern Ireland and back to London.
Whilst reading this book you will feel joy, sorrow, then more joy. You will want to love him, hit him, then love him some more. It's...
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The oddest book you may ever read, both fantastic autobiography and ground-breaking autofiction. Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine was a hero in battle and a legendary lover in bed. A daring adventurer and a shameless swindler. A gambler ready to place the riskiest bets and a coward apt to flee his creditors in the middle of the night. Tsar of Bulgaria and a Chicago streetcar conductor. A racist, a chauvinist, and an antisemite. Was he all...
14) The dark frigate
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In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
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Plongez au cœur des souvenirs du maître des voleurs!
Tour à tour boulanger, colporteur, marin, contrebandier, bagnard, puis chef de la police de Sûreté et pour finir industriel, inventeur et écrivain, Eugène-François Vidocq (1775-1857) est un personnage hors du commun. Ses exploits inspirèrent nombre d'écrivains tels Balzac, Eugène Sue, Alexandre Dumas... Victor Hugo, dans Les Misérables, immortalisera Vidocq dans le personnage de Jean...
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Citizen of Two Worlds, first published in 1960, is the autobiography of Mohammad Ata-Ullah (1905-1977), Pakistani doctor, mountaineer, and philosopher. Born into a Muslim family, Ata-Ullah is an example of a worldy human being who treated Christians and Hindus with respect and as brothers. After studying medicine in Lahore and London and becoming a doctor, Ata-Ullah served as an officer in the British India Army and traveled widely, working in central...
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Innocent till proven guilty is Justice. Condemning Satan before Judgement Day made the Church an Organization of Injustice. It was written that Satan wronged in the beginning, and he awaited to be judged at the ending. Many Judges came and died trying to judge Satan, they all fell victim to the Wicked World, they sinned and died leaving Satan still unjudged. King David claimed to be the Final/Last Judge enthroned at Mt Zion, but he murdered Uriah...
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The true adventures of a mercenary pilot who plied his trade from 1980 to 1990, working for both sides of the law from the South American cartels to the CIA. "We might have played a part in the biggest political stories of the 1980s-Iran-Contra, the rise of the Mexican cartels, illegal US involvement in various conflicts, but we weren't part of it. We weren't ideologues. We didn't have a military or political agenda. Nor did we consider ourselves...
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À 50 ans, Jo Lopez, caïd clermontois, gitan d'origine manouche, raconte sa vie, ses vies... avec cette volonté de transmettre un héritage. Entre ses petits délits de jeunesse, son premier « meurtre » à l'âge de 15 ans, ses déboires judiciaires, ses cicatrices, ses rencontres, ses passions, les poèmes qu'il rédige en prison et les valeurs qu'il défend, l'on découvre un homme bien plus singulier qu'il n'y paraît. C'est également une...
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The following manuscript comprises sixty-four chapters of vignettes and anecdotal phenomena with which I was personally involved during my thirty-year career as a police officer in the Western Australia Police Force.
To save embarrassment to some of the officers who feature in this collection of happenings, I have (in most instances) spared their feelings by not listing them by name.
This manuscript is a revised and abridged edition of a previous...
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