"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 beyon...
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A best-selling and award-winning maritime historian presents this true story of five castaways -- three British sailors and two Americans -- abandoned on the Falkland Islands for a year and a half during the War of 1812, showing individuals in wartime under great duress acting bo...
Chronicles the colorful history of the American fur trade. Starting in the 1600s, the fur trade became the basis for the American economy. Communities depended on fur trappers for trading food and materials. However, the fur trade was not without its dark side as a number of Nati...
The bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from ma...
"The best-selling author of Leviathan returns with the first major historical account of America's hurricanes, and reveals how they've shaped our nation. From the moment European colonists laid violent claim to this land, hurricanes have had a profound and visceral impact on Amer...
With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes. Hurricanes menace North America from June through November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These me...
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships.
Fur, Fortune, and Empire is the most comprehensive and compelling history of the American fur trade ever written. As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the...