An edition of The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes (1895)
The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes
being the narrative of the adventures of a young gentleman of good family, who was kidnapped in the year 1719 and carried to the plantations of the continent of Virginia, where he fell in with that famous pirate Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard: of his escape from the pirates and the rescue of a young lady from out their hands
By Howard Pyle
Publish Date
1922
Publisher
D. Appleton-Century Co.
Language
eng
Pages
420
Description:
In the early eighteenth century, when Jack is kidnapped from his home in England and made an indentured servant in the Virginia colony, he runs away from his cruel master and joins Blackbeard's gang of pirates.
subjects: Fiction, Pirates in fiction, Kidnapping in fiction, Pirates, Blackbeard, in fiction, Virginia in fiction, Juvenile fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Adventure and adventurers in fiction, Kidnapping, History, Children's fiction, Teach, edward, -1718, fiction, Kidnapping, fiction, Pirates, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Virginia, fiction, Adventure stories
People: Blackbeard (d.1718), Edward Teach (d. 1718)
Places: Virginia