adventure caribbean

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with a black cloth spine and a color illustration paste-down on front cover. K-E code on copyright page. 247 pages. Color and black and white illustrated plates throughout, all present as called for. A collection of tales, interweaving historical information, on various pirates and other notorious figures in the Spanish Main (Caribbean). Includes chapters on Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, Captain Kidd and others. Mild edgewear to covers, light water stain to rear board, gilt lettering on spine faded, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Salem, Peabody Essex Museum & Mystic Seaport Museum, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 371 pages. Clean, bright copy. Between 1932 and 1934, in the depths of the Depression, Donald Starr and six friends sailed the 85' Alden schooner Pilgrim around the world from Boston by way of the Panama and Suez Canals. Their adventure is recounted with wit and detail in this illustrated book -- a look at bluewater cruising, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and the Mediterranean before war and tourism altered them forever.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with minor wear, 94 pages, illustrated in b&w by Symeon Shimin. A young boy's adventures growing up in a Caribbean fishing village.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2nd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Young Alexander Nairn's adventures in the Caribbean make a spectacular and original story. A full-blooded novel of slavery, piracy and high adventure. Clean copy.