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Reading through these words and phrases is an abbreviated trip through history, with lists of major naval mutinies, a summary of the slave trade, and even jokes. This dictionary is written to be entertaining as well as informative, to give a flavor of the interesting times from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries when pirates controlled many sea lanes. It also contains a treasure trove of factual information about life aboard the ship, important pirate haunts, and technical terms. Paperback.
The legend of Lee Christmas grew out of his amazing turn of luck and a fearless streak that led him to the brink of death many times over. In the United States, Christmas was a tramp railroader, taking positions at five different stations between 1880 and 1891. After being blacklisted by the railroad companies for three years, he applied again only to find out that his colorblindness left him unemployable as an engineer . . . except in Honduras.