Howard Pyle's Book of pirates

fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main

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Author

Howard Pyle

Contributions

Johnson, Merle De Vore, 1874-1935. - Contributor

Publication

1949 - Harper & Row, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

54,500 words, Guess

Page Count

218 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL16574223M

Classifications

LCCPS2670 .B6

Description

Stories and descriptions of famous pirates and buccaneers.

First Sentence

JUST above the northwestern shore of the old island of Hispaniola - the Santo Domingo of our day - and separated from it only by a narrow channel of some five or six miles in width, lies a queer little hunch of an island, known, because of a distant resemblance to that animal, as the Tortuga de Mar, or sea turtle.