Action-packed stories of pirates, treachery, and buried treasure have excited and fascinated readers ever since Treasure Island became an instant bestseller in

North Carolina possesses one of the longest, most treacherous coastlines in the United States, and the waters off its shores have been the scene of some of the

Pirates and Privateers tells the fascinating story of the buccaneers who were the scourge of merchants in the 18th Century. It examines their lifestyle, looking

Includes Captain Kidd, Sir Henry Morgan, Sir Francis Drake, Captain Teach, commonly called Blackbeard, and Captain Bartholomew Roberts.

This book profiles the lives and times of the most colorful characters from the buccaneer days of the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries.