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978-0-89587-032-2
0-89587-032-0
$12.95 paperback
6" x 9"
264 pages appendixes, bibliography, index
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Edward Teach, better known as
Blackbeard, was one of the most notorious pirates ever to plague the
Atlantic coast. He was also one of the most colorful pirates of all
time, becoming the model for countless blood-and-thunder tales of sea
rovers. His daring exploits, personal courage, terrifying appearance,
and fourteen wives made him a legend in his own lifetime.
The legends and myths about
Blackbeard have become wilder rather than tamer in the 250 years since
his gory but valiant death at Ocracoke Inlet. It is difficult for
historians, and all but impossible for the general reader, to separate
fact from fiction. Author Robert E. Lee has studied virtually every
scrap of information available about the pirate and his contemporaries
in an attempt to find the real Blackbeard. The result is a fascinating
and authoritative study that reads like an exciting swashbuckler. Lee
goes beyond the myths and the image Teach so carefully cultivated to
reveal a new Blackbeard--infinitely more interesting as a man than as a
legend. In the process, he has captured the spirit and character of a
vanished age, "the golden age of piracy."
about the author
Robert E. Lee was a former law professor who traced his own ancestry
to a possible link with Blackbeard. A native of Kinston, North Carolina,
he earned degrees from Wake Forest, Columbia, and Duke universities. The
author of sixteen law books, Lee wrote the newspaper column, "This
is the Law."
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