Pirates Rogues Of Monterey Bay

Author : Todd Cook
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439668477
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates & Rogues of Monterey Bay written by Todd Cook and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the California bay’s colorful history with pirates. The age of pirates spanned nearly two hundred years and was considered a plague on the high seas. Even the far reaches of what was then Alta California weren’t safe, and a surprising number of unexpected visitors sailed into Monterey Bay. Argentinian Hippolyte Bouchard, spurred by revolutionary fervor, attacked Monterey, the then Spanish capital of Alta California, using pirating tactics that left their mark centuries later, and privateers like Sir Francis Drake prowled the Pacific, leaving possible traces of their journey on the beaches of California. The foggy coastline of Monterey even inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write his famous Treasure Island. Join author Todd Cook as he explores the Monterey Peninsula’s eclectic pirating history.

Author : Todd Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781537556918
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pirate History of Monterey Bay written by Todd Cook and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No stretch of the California coast has more pirate history than Monterey Bay. From Elizabethan period swashbucklers of the 16th century to Argentine sea mercenaries of the early 19th century, this book discusses the pirate-related history of Monterey Bay and is also your guide to the various spots where this history took place.

Author : David Laws
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1681063654
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Monterey: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure written by David Laws and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Sir Francis Drake really claim Monterey for Queen Elizabeth? What does it take to win the world’s worst car show? Why did the new nation of Argentina attack the port of Monterey? Monterey County is known nationwide for its agricultural bounty, a bay bursting with marine life, world-famous golf courses, annual displays of automobile extravagance, and Big Sur, one of the top ten scenic road trips in the nation, but what about the stories and places that don’t appear in traditional travel guides? Secret Monterey: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure reveals the unexpected and little-known stories behind major attractions, as well as numerous other spots replete with mystery and intrigue. Did General Sherman really jilt the beautiful Senorita Bonifacio? Why did activists decapitate a Catholic saint canonized in the US? When will the next “big one” strike along one of the world’s most closely observed earthquake faults? Local author, travel writer, and historian David Laws answers these questions and introduces you to the other side of Monterey County, a trove of unexpected and unique places just waiting to be explored.

Author : JoAnn Semones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781889901633
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates, Pinnacles and Petticoats written by JoAnn Semones and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the Point Pinos lighthouse and the shipwrecks that have occurred nearby"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Summit Press
ISBN 13 : 9781741785098
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pirates - Rogues Gallery written by John Matthews and published by Summit Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be ye warned! For within these pages lurk some of the wickedest scoundrels ever to have sailed the seven seas... Almost everyone has heard of Blackbeard and Black Sam Bellamy - but how much do you actaully know about these cut-throat villains and their dastardly deeds? Open the pages of this book and delve into the lives of history's most bloodthirsty pirates. Discover a world where men like the black-hearted Henry Morgan prowled the seas in seach of adventure and untold riches - a pirate so wicked that after his death the sea is said to have overwhelmed his grave and carried his soul to Davy Jones's Locker. Read about the monstrous Blackbeard whose very appearance struck terror in his enemies' hearts and find out about Charlotte de Berry, who, disguised as a man, fought six sea batles and cut off a captain's head! Here are the men and women who lived and died by the cutlass. Enter their world at your peril...

Author : John Gregory Betancourt
Publisher : TSR
ISBN 13 : 9780880384568
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rogue Pirate written by John Gregory Betancourt and published by TSR. This book was released on 1987 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristiana Gregory
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613088312
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stowaway written by Kristiana Gregory and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1995-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1818 Carlito, an eleven-year-old boy in the Spanish-owned town of Monterey, California, sees his quiet life threatened when the Argentinian privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard attacks with his pirate ships.

Author : Beldon Butterfield
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612344267
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico Behind the Mask written by Beldon Butterfield and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of current events related to immigration issues, the drug war along the border, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Beldon Butterfield's insightful and informative history of the complex relationship between Mexico and the United States is both timely and useful. Butterfield went to Mexico with Time Inc. in 1962 and has lived there ever since, enabling him to provide a unique perspective on the country's history and culture. He traces Mexico's tangled history from the early arrival of the Aztecs to their fall at the hands of Hernán Cortés, from the Mexican Revolution to the disastrous agrarian reform measures, and from Mexico's standing as one of the wealthiest countries in the world to its status, until recently, as a member of the third world. Mexico's relationship with the United States is a key aspect of its culture. Many cultural barriers between the two countries are breaking down in spite of lingering resistance by both countries and differing perspectives of their common border. While Mexicans cannot forget that the border symbolizes the scar of an unjust war, Americans resent how millions of Mexicans cross it illegally in their quest for work. The good news, Butterfield writes, is that Mexico is changing despite the continued opposition of political forces that want to maintain their unchecked power of the past. Mexico Behind the Mask shows how the road to a more prosperous Mexico seems to be on course.

Author : Robert W Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rogue's Moon written by Robert W Chambers and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ROGUE'S MOON It is 1700 and the coasts between Maine and Florida are plagued by pirates... Freckles was born Nancy Topsfield, but when her parents are killed at sea by pirates, leaving only her alive, she decides it is easier to pose as a boy-which is how she becomes indentured to the former pirate Tom Cocklyn. When she meets handsome Jack Ross, who thinks he wants to become a pirate but is saved from that life by Freckles' intervention, it is only the beginning of her story. Here you will meet Mary Read and Anne Bonny, the two famous female pirates ... Francis Farrington Sprigg, perhaps the cruelest knave of the high seas ... the Honourable Charles Eden, compromised governor of North Carolina... the respectable Stede Bonnet, a man of wealth turned to piracy. And the wickedest of them all, Edward Teach, Black-Beard himself!

Author : Helen M. Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miguel and the Pirates written by Helen M. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Indian named Miguel saves Mission Santa Cruz from a gang of looters.