Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates by Eric Jay Dolin

Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

Eric Jay Dolin

416 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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To be read alongside thrilling histories by Nathaniel Philbrick, Hampton Sides, and Rinker Buck, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the "Golden Age" of piracy in the Americas-- spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s--when lawless...

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informative 100%
adventurous 50%
dark 18%
challenging 12%
reflective 12%
tense 12%
emotional 6%
inspiring 6%
lighthearted 6%

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fast 6%

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