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The Last Pirate
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Author : Tony Dokoupil
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2014-04-01
The Last Pirate written by Tony Dokoupil and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony, a flawless model of the great American pot baron. To his fellow smugglers, Anthony Edward Dokoupil was the Old Man. He ran stateside operations for one of the largest marijuana rings of the twentieth century. In all they sold hundreds of thousands of pounds of marijuana, and Big Tony distributed at least fifty tons of it. To his son he was a rambling man who was also somehow a present father, a self-destructive addict who ruined everything but affection. Here Tony Dokoupil blends superb reportage with searing personal memories, presenting a probing chronicle of pot-smoking, drug-taking America from the perspective of the generation that grew up in the aftermath of the Great Stoned Age.
The Last Pirate Of New York
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Author : Rich Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-06-04
The Last Pirate Of New York written by Rich Cohen and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with History categories.
Was he New York City’s last pirate . . . or its first gangster? This is the true story of the bloodthirsty underworld legend who conquered Manhattan, dock by dock—for fans of Gangs of New York and Boardwalk Empire. “History at its best . . . I highly recommend this remarkable book.”—Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God Handsome and charismatic, Albert Hicks had long been known in the dive bars and gin joints of the Five Points, the most dangerous neighborhood in maritime Manhattan. For years, he operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime, working on the water in ships, sleeping in the nickel-a-night flops, drinking in barrooms where rat-baiting and bear-baiting were great entertainments. His criminal career reached its peak in 1860, when he was hired, under an alias, as a hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was to rob the ship and flee, disappearing into the teeming streets of lower Manhattan, as he’d done numerous times before, eventually finding his way back to his nearsighted Irish immigrant wife (who, like him, had been disowned by her family) and their infant son. But the plan went awry—the ship was found listing and unmanned in the foggy straits of Coney Island—and the voyage that was to enrich him instead led to his last desperate flight. Long fascinated by gangster legends, Rich Cohen tells the story of this notorious underworld figure, from his humble origins to the wild, globe-crossing, bacchanalian crime spree that forged his ruthlessness and his reputation, to his ultimate incarnation as a demon who terrorized lower Manhattan, at a time when pirates anchored off 14th Street. Advance praise for The Last Pirate of New York “A remarkable work of scholarship about old New York, combined with a skillfully told, edge-of-your-seat adventure story—I could not put it down.”—Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia “With its wise and erudite storytelling, Rich Cohen’s The Last Pirate of New York takes the reader on an exciting nonfiction narrative journey that transforms a grisly nineteenth-century murder into a shrewd portent of modern life. Totally unique, totally compelling, I enjoyed every page.”—Howard Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Gangland and American Lightning
The Last Pirate A Novel By Wilson Hawthorne
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Author : Wilson Hawthorne
language : en
Publisher: The Last Pirate, W Hawthorne
Release Date : 2009
The Last Pirate A Novel By Wilson Hawthorne written by Wilson Hawthorne and has been published by The Last Pirate, W Hawthorne this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
The Last Pirate
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Author : Wilson Hawthorne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-12
The Last Pirate written by Wilson Hawthorne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-12 with categories.
School's out for the summer in Florida. For young Harley Cooper, that means endless days of adventure on the bays and cays around Pine Island. With his sea-going black lab, Hammerhead, by his side, Harley fishes the pristine waters for blue crab to help his mom make ends meet. When he hauls up an ancient treasure map one day, summer vacation explodes into a hunt for Spanish gold. A mysterious hermit, known only as Salt, steers Harley toward hidden doubloons with swashbuckling tales of the infamous pirate Gasparilla. But, does the hermit have reasons of his own? Or will nature have the final say when she sends a monster hurricane to hammer the coast? Harley Cooper explains it all in an action-packed diddie he calls The Last Pirate.
The Last Pirate
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Author : Louis Untermeyer
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-06-08
The Last Pirate written by Louis Untermeyer and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-08 with Operas categories.
The seven tales which are found in this work are not Untermeyer? own. Additionally, Untermeyer points out that this volume is not intended for the ?evotees or scholars who know their Gilbert and Sullivan forward and backward, and vice versa.? This book is for the younger and less learned reader. It is offered as a preparation for them and is intended for those who are unfamiliar with the almost perfect music and words which marks for example, The Gondoliers, and for the young people who have yet to hear their first performance of Ruddigore. Untermeyer has drawn on Gilbert? unmatched lyrics and has made almost continuous use of his prose.
The Last Pirate Hanged
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Author : G. S. Willmott
language : en
Publisher: Crabtree Pty Ltd
Release Date : 2020-05-11
The Last Pirate Hanged written by G. S. Willmott and has been published by Crabtree Pty Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with Fiction categories.
William Swallow was a wayward boy who became a wayward man. Transported as a convict, he became a diligent escaper, but his greatest exploit was when he and some of his fellows commandeered the Cypress in Recherche Bay Tasmania and sailed to Tahiti. The adventures that follow are as amazing as they are exciting, packed with historical detail and event. Swallow and his companions, and those he inspired, lived in harsh times. Their stories shed entertaining light on a forgotten corner of history. - Sally Odgers, Author Whitehall London was the environment where William Swallow was raised. At fourteen, he joined His Majesty's Navy in order to escape from the filth and degradation of his home. Life at sea was hard; he experienced several floggings for insubordination, but he didn't have a moment of regret. He got to see the world and became an experienced mariner. Swallow's first voyage to Canton, China, was in 1826 aboard the ship Prince of Wales, a 120-gun man of war. The ship's assignment was to escort several British merchant ships from the East India Company who intended to trade with the Chinese. It was on this voyage that his life turned for the worse - he was arrested for pilfering the officer's larder. On arrival back in London he was court-marshalled. James Porter, also a very young seaman, had a similar life to William Swallow. His life also had a turn for the worse. He began his criminal career at the age of eleven. He went to sea and spent a large part of his young life in South America. He was arrested and sent to Sarah Island where he befriended William Swallow. He too embarked on a wondrous journey.
Hunting The Last Great Pirate
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Author : Michael Edward Ashton Ford
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2020-05-30
Hunting The Last Great Pirate written by Michael Edward Ashton Ford and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-30 with History categories.
A true, century-spanning saga of terror at sea, a dramatic trial, and a mystery at long last solved . . . In 1827 the Duke of Wellington—former Commander-in-Chief of the British Army and British Prime Minister—ordered the withdrawal of British soldiers from the island of Ceylon after years of bloody conflict there. English cargo vessels, including the unarmed English Quaker ship Morning Star, were dispatched to sail to Colombo to repatriate wounded British soldiers and a cargo of sealed crates containing captured treasure. By January 1828, Morning Star was anchored at Table Bay, Cape Town, before joining an armed British convoy of East Indiamen heading north. Heavily laden, she struggled to keep up with the ships ahead. But a heavily armed pirate ship and its master, the notorious Benito de Soto, were lying in wait off Ascension Island in the mid-Atlantic to pick off stragglers from passing convoys. This book tells the full story of how Morning Star was easily overhauled by the pirate and stopped with cannon fire, the bloody events that followed, the long quest to hold de Soto to account—and the remarkable discovery that was made nearly a century later.
Pirate Latitudes
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Author : Michael Crichton
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2009-11-16
Pirate Latitudes written by Michael Crichton and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-16 with Fiction categories.
The new thriller from Michael Crichton, one of the most famous authors in the world, the most exciting, anticipated publication of Christmas 2009.
Pirate Nests And The Rise Of The British Empire 1570 1740
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Author : Mark G. Hanna
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-10-22
Pirate Nests And The Rise Of The British Empire 1570 1740 written by Mark G. Hanna and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-22 with History categories.
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns. English piracy and unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in the North American colonies. Sea marauders represented a real as well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies. Departing from previous understandings of deep-sea marauding, this study reveals the full scope of pirates' activities in relation to the landed communities that they serviced and their impact on patterns of development that formed early America and the British Empire.
Summary Of Rich Cohen S The Last Pirate Of New York
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-10T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Rich Cohen S The Last Pirate Of New York written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10T22:59:00Z with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I grew up on gangster stories. I moved to New York to explore the parts of the city where these stories had taken place. I met a few living examples of the genus and species: New York gangster. #2 I wanted to track down and name the first New York gangster, the man behind all the other legends. I found that many consider Monk Eastman to have been the first, but when Eastman turned up in the dives, old-timers were already telling stories about gangsters of an earlier generation. #3 Hicks was a founding father of New York’s underworld. He was a demon, and he had that kind of charisma. He put his arm around the town and pulled its people close. In writing about him, reporters of the time were capturing a new kind of terror: the terror of the metropolis.