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Obsessed by a boyhood dream of lost pirate treasure, Barry Clifford launched a search for the pirate ship Whydah which supposedly was wrecked on the coast of Cape Cod. He soon realized he had taken on a duanting task which had defeated many before him. Effortlessly weaving pirate Black Sam Bellamy's history with his own story, Clifford tells a ...
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Obsessed by a boyhood dream of lost pirate treasure, Barry Clifford launched a search for the pirate ship Whydah which supposedly was wrecked off the coast of Cape Cod. He soon realized he had taken on a daunting task which had defeated many before him. Effortlessly weaving pirate Black Sam Bellamy's history with his own story, Clifford tells a ...
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Elwood, Roger (Edited And Preface By) [Introduction By Frank Herbert] [Barry N. Malzberg, Clifford D. Simak, David H. Charney...
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Edition: First Thus
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Collier Books / Macmillan [1973]
Date Published: 1973
Description: Ex-Library. First printing thus. Collects 12 stories. 198 pages. Ex-school library copy [usual flaws else would be VG+ copy with the cheap text paper tanning]. read more
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