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  • Under the Black Flag

    The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

    par David Cordingly ...
    “This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian“[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected.”—Men's JournalThis rollicking account of the golden age of piracy is packed with vivid history and high seas adventure. David Cordingly, an acclaimed ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Cochrane

    The Real Master and Commander

    par David Cordingly ...
    In this fascinating account of Thomas Cochrane's extraordinary life, David Cordingly (Under the Black Flag and The Billy Ruffian) unearths startling new details about the real-life "Master and Commander"-from his heroic battles against the French navy to his role in the liberation of Chile, Peru, and Brazil, and the stock exchange scandal that forced him out of England and almost ended his naval ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean

    The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers

    par David Cordingly ...
    From renowned pirate historian David Cordingly, author of Under the Black Flag and film consultant for the original Pirates of the Caribbean, comes the thrilling story of Captain Woodes Rogers, the avenging nemesis of the worst cutthroats ever to terrorize the high seas. Once a marauding privateer himself, Woodes Rogers went from laying siege to laying down the law. During Britain’s war with Spain ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Seafaring Women

    Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives

    par David Cordingly ...
    For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled aboard by officers or seamen. And Cordingly has unearthed stories of a number of young women who dressed ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Women Sailors and Sailors' Women

    par David Cordingly ...
    For centuries the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters stayed on shore. Oceangoing adventurers and the crews of their ships were part of an all-male world — or were they?In this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that in fact an astonishing number of women ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

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    Under the Black Flag

    The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

    par David Cordingly ...
    Lu par Don Hagen ...

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    10 heure 31 min

    For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier. ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    Cochrane

    The Real Master and Commander

    par David Cordingly ...
    Lu par John Lee ...

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    13 heure 3 min

    From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero upon whom Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower are based.Nicknamed le loup des mers ("the sea wolf") by Napoleon, Thomas Cochrane was one of the most daring and successful naval heroes of all time. In this fascinating account of Cochrane's life, historian David ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

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    Carthage Must Be Destroyed

    The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

    par Richard Miles ...
    Lu par Grover Gardner ...

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    14 heure 9 min

    An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire.The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased.Drawing on a ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

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    Waco Rising

    David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias

    par Kevin Cook ...
    Lu par Gary Tiedemann ...

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    8 heure 19 min

    In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven't heard the full story.Kevin Cook finally provides the full story of what happened at Waco. He ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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    So Very Small

    How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

    par Thomas Levenson ...
    Lu par Mike Cooper ...

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    10 heure 11 min

    “An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.“Levenson takes readers through an entertaining . . . journey of missed opportunities in microbiology and the eventual advances that arose in this field.” ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

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    The Book-Makers

    A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

    par Adam Smyth ...
    Lu par Adam Smyth ...

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    12 heure 12 min

    An Economist Book of the YearA five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.**“Almost every page—almost every paragraph—fizzes with facts, allusions, speculations, tidbits of etymology and gems of historical interest.” —**Wall Street JournalBooks have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought... ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    The Earth is Weeping

    The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

    par Peter Cozzens ...
    Lu par John Pruden ...

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    18 heure 39 min

    With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD