Mudbone, Sinbad, and the Typhoon Kid: A Pirate’s Life for Me
“The Capture of Blackbeard” by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris “Here was an end of that courageous brute, who might have passed in the world or a hero had he been employed in a good cause.” —Charles Johnson on...
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Retracing Moby-Dick on a nineteenth-century whaler. Photo: Ben Shattuck When Herman Melville was twenty-one, he embarked on the whaleship Acushnet, out of New Bedford. We all know what that led to....
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