The pirate's wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd / Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos.
"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. |
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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. |
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- 17 of 18 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Carroll Valley Library | BIOG KIDD-S (Text)
Endowment:
Arthur E. Rice Sr. Named Endowment, 2022
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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 | Available | - |
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity | 910.45 GEA 2022 (Text) | 31001101870567 | Adult Non Fiction | Available | - |