The pirate's wife the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd

In work of narrative nonfiction filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New Yor...

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1. Verfasser: Geanacopoulos, Daphne Palmer (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hanover Square Press [2022]
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Prologue
  • Sarah's new world
  • William Cox and the she-merchant
  • Mayhem and tragedy
  • Debts and bills
  • Dead men tell no tales
  • The golden age of piracy
  • Fletcher's friends
  • London
  • Provisioning in New York
  • Waiting
  • Emott's secret
  • Taking precautions
  • Safe haven on Block Island
  • Reunited
  • Accomplice
  • Buried treasure
  • Confronting Bellomont
  • Kidd's narrative
  • Bellomont's secret
  • Imprisoned
  • The pirate's wife
  • The king's ship
  • Newgate
  • Kidd's good deed
  • Trial
  • Tragic news
  • New beginnings
  • Full circle