Pirate Hunter : The True Story of Captain Kidd

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Author: Richard Zacks

“Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America’s most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying dozens of treasure chests up and down the eastern seaboard. Over the centuries, novelists, relentless treasure hunters, and even historians have stoked this pirate legend. Robert Louis Stevenson, for one, placed “Kidd’s Anchorage” on Treasure Island. But it turns out that….Read More

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