{ Oct 2020 - epub revisions. Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 405 pages Published 1987 Corvus (2011) Press-ganged on pain of death to serve a merciless pirate crew, Jack Shandy is caught be
On Stranger Tides
✍ Scribed by Powers, Tim
- Book ID
- 108425134
- Publisher
- Corvus
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 337 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781848875128
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
1718: Puppeteer John Chandagnac has set sail for Jamaica to recover his stolen inheritance, when his ship is seized by pirates. Offered the choice to join the crew, or be killed where he stands, he decides that a pirate's life is better than none at all. Now known as Jack Shandy, this apprentice buccaneer soon learns to handle a mainsail and wield a cutlass - only to discover he is now a subject of a Caribbean pirate empire ruled by one Edward Thatch, better known as Blackbeard.A practitioner of voodoo, Blackbeard is building an army of the living and the dead, to voyage together to search for the ultimate prize: the legendary Fountain of Youth.
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