Overview
Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard. But it turns out that most everyone, from novelists to scholars, has the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cutthroat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates in the 1690s. His three-year odyssey aboard the aptly named Adventure Galley would pit him against arrogant Royal Navy commanders, jealous East India Company captains, storms, starvation, angry natives, and, above all, flesh-and-blood pirates. Captain Kidd found himself facing a long-forgotten rogue by the name of Robert Culliford, who lured Kidd's crew to mutiny not once but twice. Through painstaking research, author Richard Zacks has pieced together the never-before-told story of Kidd versus Culliford, of pirate hunter versus pirate, as they fought each other in an unscripted duel across the oceans of the world. One man would hang in the harbor; the other would walk away with the treasure. The Pirate Hunter delivers something rare: an authentic pirate story for grown-ups.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Zacks ,
Michael Prichard
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798200150458
Publication Date: 01 August 2003
Audience:
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""A lively, educational, thoroughly spellbinding trip back in time."" -- ""Booklist"" ""Author Zacks is diligent in giving us the inside story of how in the late 17th century the worlds of commerce, shipping, speculation, piracy, and politics combined to produce the phenomenon of Captain Kidd...a rich, detailed book--a find for maritime enthusiasts."" -- ""Kliatt"" ""Entertaining, richly detailed, and authoritatively narrated, Zacks' account of the life of legendary seaman William Kidd delivers a first-rate story."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""In this fascinating work of historical revisionism, Zacks...sets the suspenseful tale of Kidd's downfall within its larger historical context, in a manner reminiscent, at times, of Defoe, vividly illustrating the brutalities of life on a seagoing vessel and the chaos of urban society at the end of the seventeenth century."" -- ""New Yorker"""
Author Information
Richard Zacks is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Journalism School. He is the author of History Laid Bare and An Underground Education and has written articles for The Atlantic, Time, The Village Voice, and many other publications. He also thinks he knows where Captain Kidd's last ship went down. Michael Prichard is a Los Angeles-based actor who has played several thousand characters during his career, over one hundred of them in theater and film. He is primarily heard as an audiobook narrator, having recorded well over five hundred full-length books. His numerous awards and accolades include an Audie Award for Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman and six AudioFile Earphones Awards. He was named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine. He holds an MFA in theater from the University of Southern California.
