Eric Jay Dolin
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Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature
Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award
A Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must-Read"
Finalist for the New England Society Book Award
Finalist for the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Book Award
The bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of
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Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and 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. Bestselling 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...
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The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812--a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and...