Expedition Whydah

Author: Barry Clifford
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060929715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
A Captivating Account of the Golden Age of Piracy, the Search for Sunken Treasure, and the Business of Underwater Exploration Bored by his successful life and obsessed with a boyhood dream of lost pirate treasure, Barry Clifford began a quest for legendary pirate Black Sam Bellamy's ship Whydah, which had supposedly wrecked off the coast of Cape Cod more than two centuries ago. Ignoring claims that he was a fool and a dreamer, Clifford pressed on, until he unbelievable found the Whydah...and then the real story begins in a spellbinding story that will capture your imagination.

Real Pirates

Author: Barry Clifford
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426302794
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Profiles the ship Whidah, including who sailed it, where it sailed, and why it sailed, and what happened to it.

The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found

Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763693731
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah — the only pirate ship ever found — and the incredible mysteries it revealed. The 1650s to the 1730s marked the golden age of piracy, when fearsome pirates like Blackbeard ruled the waves, seeking not only treasure but also large and fast ships to carry it. The Whydah was just such a ship, built to ply the Triangular Trade route, which it did until one of the greediest pirates of all, Black Sam Bellamy, commandeered it. Filling the ship to capacity with treasure, Bellamy hoped to retire with his bounty — but in 1717 the ship sank in a storm off Cape Cod. For more than two hundred years, the wreck of the Whydah (and the riches that went down with it) eluded treasure seekers, until the ship was finally found in 1984 by marine archaeologists. The artifacts brought up from the ocean floor are priceless, both in value and in the picture they reveal of life in that much-mythologized era, changing much of what we know about pirates.

The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found

Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763680338
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Explore the exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah the only pirate ship ever foundand the incredible mysteries it revealed.

Above the Timberline

Author: Gregory Manchess
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481459252
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
From renowned artist Gregory Manchess comes a lavishly painted novel about the son of a famed polar explorer searching for his stranded father, and a lost city buried under snow in an alternate future. When it started to snow, it didn’t stop for 1,500 years. The Pole Shift that ancient climatologists talked about finally came, the topography was ripped apart and the weather of the world was changed—forever. Now the Earth is covered in snow, and to unknown depths in some places. In this world, Wes Singleton leaves the academy in search of his father, the famed explorer Galen Singleton, who was searching for a lost city until Galen’s expedition was cut short after being sabotaged. But Wes believes his father is still alive somewhere above the timberline. Fully illustrated with over 120 pieces of full-page artwork throughout, Above the Timberline is a stunning and cinematic combination of art and novel.

Expedition Whydah

Author: Barry Clifford
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606198080
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Chronicles the author's life-long quest to find and salvage the priceless cargo of the pirate ship Whydah, which sank off the shores of Cape Cod in 1717

Treasure Wreck

Author: Arthur T. Vanderbilt
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764327391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When the pirate ship Whydah went down in a violent storm just off the coast of Massachusetts in 1717, she took a huge treasury of stolen gold and jewels with her. Pieces of eight have continued to wash ashore since that ill-fated voyage, luring treasure seekers and undersea salvage experts. Here is the story of this plunder, of the pirates who amassed this horde during one legendary year upon the Spanish Main, and the tragedy of their loss upon the shoals of Cape Cod. It is updated to cover salvage efforts still underway in the Whydah's deep-sea grave.Had it not been for the love of Maria Hallett, whose spirit is still said to stalk the coast, Captain Samuel "Black" Bellamy might not have risked the Whydah's return through those threatening shoals, so close to the "hanging port" of Boston. This book traces the story of those who survived the wreck only to be imprisoned and then assailed by the soul-saving Reverend Cotton Mather.This is a true adventure of the high seas; a story inextricably melded with legend of the Cape Cod coast.

Travels in Western Africa, in 1845 & 1846

Author: John Duncan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description

Pirates and Lost Treasure of Coastal Maine

Author: Greg Latimer
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467141003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
"With a rugged coast and more than four thousand offshore islands, Maine's dark waters attracted sea raiders like Dixie Bull from the 1600s through colonial times. Pirate treasure still awaits discovery in Phippsburg and Machias, and pirate deceit prompted a massacre in ancient Fort Loyall. The infamous Captain Kidd may have prowled the waters off Deer Isle, while farther down the coast a woman and a bloodthirsty band of cutthroats lured ships to disaster at Isles of Shoals."--Supplied by publisher

Storms and Shipwrecks of New England

Author: Edward Rowe Snow
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1933212217
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
A classic by Edward Rowe Snow, first published in 1943 and updated in 1944 and again in 1946, Storms and Shipwrecks of New England relates what William P. Quinn calls ""stories of stormy adventure."" Jeremy D'Entremont has provided annotations to Snow's chapters, covering the pirate ship Whidah, the wreck of the City of Columbus, the Portland Gale, the 1938 hurricane, and more, bringing the information about the storms and shipwrecks up to date.