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The pirate's wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd / Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos.

Summary:
"In work of narrative nonfiction filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781335429841
  • ISBN: 1335429840
  • Physical Description: 288 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-276) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- Sarah's new world -- William Cox and the she-merchant - Mayhem and tragedy -- Debts and bills -- Dead men tell no tales -- The golden age of piracy -- Fletcher's friends -- London -- Provisioning in New York -- Waiting -- Emott's secret -- Taking precautions -- Safe haven on Block Island -- Reunited -- Accomplice -- Buried treasure -- Confronting Bellomont -- Kidd's narrative -- Bellomont's secret -- Imprisoned -- The pirate's wife -- The king's ship -- Newgate -- Kidd's good deed -- Trial -- Tragic news -- New beginnings -- Full circle.
Subject: Kidd, Sarah.
Kidd, William, -1701.
Pirates > Great Britain > Biography.
Women > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
New York (N.Y.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 16 of 18 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 18 total copies.
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Boone Area Library 910.45 GEA (Text) 33249024518478 Non-fiction Available -
Carroll Valley Library BIOG KIDD-S (Text)
Endowment: Arthur E. Rice Sr. Named Endowment, 2022
35740635895287 Biography Available -
DuBois Public Library 910.45 GENEACOPOULOS (Text) 61000100087861 Adult NonFiction Available -
Ebensburg Public Library 910.45 GEA (Text) 31814700847905 EBNM Non-Fiction Available -
Exeter Community Library 910.45 GEA (Text) 33249025513221 Fiction Available -
Frackville Free Public Library 910.45GE (Text) 30459000385114 Adult Non-fiction Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 921 KIDD (Text) 92525967 GFWM Main Room Available -
Kreutz Creek Valley Library Adults 910.4 GEA Nonfiction (Text) 34261000555191 Adult Area New Available -
Martin Library Adults 910.4 GEA Life Times (Text) 33454005916580 2nd Floor Available -
Mason-Dixon Public Library Adults 910.4 GEA Nonfiction (Text) 34262000787768 Main Room In Transit -


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