Dead Men Tell No Tales - The Life and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs

Informationen zum Autor Formerly a reporter and editor on several Massachusetts newspapers, Joseph Gibbs holds a doctorate in policy and communication from Boston University. The author of Gorbachev's Glasnost and Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh, he is a professor of mass communication at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Klappentext A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean Zusammenfassung Presents the true story of Charles Gibbs - an alias for James Jeffers (1798-1831) of Newport! Rhode Island. This book tells the larger story of American piracy and privateering in the early nineteenth century and illustrates the role of American and European adventurers in the Latin American wars of liberation.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Gibbs
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2007
• EAN: 9781570036934
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-693-4
• No. of pages: 211
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in Maritime History; Studies in Maritime History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous