How History"s Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It (Repost)

Benerson Little – How History’s Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It
Fair Winds Press | 2011 | ISBN: 1592334431, 9781592334438 | English | 272 pages | PDF | 125.78 MB

The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500-1800.

Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on how pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. Readers will follow eighteen of the most famous pirates in detail as they raid major ships and pillage coastal villages. Readers will learn how the pirates approached such invasions and how they managed to elude authorities and sometimes whole navies. With archival images gathered from around the world.

Each chapter is a stand-alone story about a famous buccaneer and follows them moment by moment on a specific attack as an example of their greater techniques and tactics for plundering. Readers will follow the characters in live action and trace their movements in real time; a recreation of the action based on the historic information available.

A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History"s Greatest Traveler

A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler by Jason Roberts
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0007161263 | 432 pages | EPUB | 0,7 MB

He was known simply as the Blind Traveler – a solitary, sightless adventurer who, astonishingly, fought the slave trade in Africa, survived a frozen captivity in Siberia, hunted rogue elephants in Ceylon, and helped chart the Australian outback. James Holman (1786-1857) became “one of the greatest wonders of the world he so sagaciously explored,” triumphing not only over blindness but crippling pain, poverty, and the interference of well-meaning authorities (his greatest feat, a circumnavigation of the globe, had to be launched in secret). Once a celebrity, a bestselling author, and an inspiration to Charles Darwin and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the charismatic, witty Holman outlived his fame, dying in an obscurity that has endured – until now.

A Sense of the World is a spellbinding and moving rediscovery of one of history’s most epic lives. Drawing on meticulous research, Jason Roberts ushers us into the Blind Traveler’s uniquely vivid sensory realm, then sweeps us away on an extraordinary journey across the known world during the Age of Exploration. Rich with suspense, humor, international intrigue, and unforgettable characters, this is a story to awaken our own senses of awe and wonder.

Flights of No Return: Aviation History"s Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality

Flights of No Return: Aviation History’s Most Infamous One-Way Tickets to Immortality by Steven A. Ruffin
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0760347921 | 256 pages | EPUB | 36 MB

Discover the mysterious, controversial, and sometimes downright eerie history of flights that didn’t end as planned.

The history of aviation is full of accounts of history’s most spectacular flights. But what about the ones from which someone failed to return?

• A celebrated millionaire–who also happened to be the world’s foremost aviator–lifted off in a small plane one clear morning in 2007 and disappeared.

• The glamorous son of a beloved fallen president took off on a hazy summer night in 1999 and plunged himself and two others into the Atlantic Ocean.

• A US Navy blimp landed one Sunday morning in 1942 in the middle of a city street in California with no one aboard.

Some of these “non-returns” occurred because of errors in judgment; others were intentional, and some resulted from causes still unknown. Get the full, meticulous account of the fascinating people involved in these flights, the mistakes they made, and the ways in which their “flight of no return” affected the world. Pilot and aviation writer Steven A. Ruffin covers the entire 230-year span of manned flight in all types of aircraft through war and peace. Balloons, blimps, biplanes, jets, and spaceships have all suffered mishaps over the years.

Don’t miss the mystery, adventure, intrigue, and a sprinkling of the supernatural and extraterrestrial in Flights of No Return.