Barbary Pirate: The Life and Crimes of John Ward, the Most Infamous Privateer of His Time by Greg Bak

Barbary Pirate: The Life and Crimes of John Ward, the Most Infamous Privateer of His Time

Greg Bak

225 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The first 50 years of John Ward's life were those of an ordinary seaman. But in 1603 he celebrated his half-century by leading a mass desertion from the Navy of James I of England, stealing a vessel, and defecting to the Ottoman Empire's outpost a...

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