| Ghost Pirates: And Other Tales of the High Seas Contributor(s): McCarthy, Tom (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1599210975 ISBN-13: 9781599210971 Publisher: Lyons Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2007 Annotation: "You can pray to God that they won't stumble across us. It strikes me that whether they're ghosts, or not ghosts, they're blood-gutted pirates." Pirates. Ghost ships. Murder. Man-eating alligators. Bloody revenge. Put them all together and you've got a winning combination of the most exciting stories ever written. It's enough to make anyone say, "Shiver me timbers!"--with delight. The spirits of Davy Jones's locker and his rivals have a long and colorful history among sailors and lovers of literature. From "The Shadow of the Sea" to "The Pirate Who Could Not Swim" to "The Life, Atrocities, and Bloody Death of Blackbeard," these boisterous brigands come back to life in all their devil-may-care glory, stealing our hearts and imagination with their brashness. Prepare yourself for a thrilling ride. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Sea Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007298599 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 7.74" W x 9.01" (0.72 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ghosts. Pirates. Put the two together and you've got a winning combination of the most exciting stories ever written. It's enough to make anyone say, "Shiver me timbers"--with delight.The spirits of Davy Jones's locker have a long and colorful history among sailors and lovers of literature. From Daniel Defoe's "The Four Years Voyages of Capt. George Roberts" to Thomas Smollet's "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" to Washington Irving's "Adventures of the Black Fisherman," ghost pirates swashbuckle in and out of the scene, stealing the souls of the doomed and frightening the innocent. Prepare yourself for a thrilling ride. |