Plunder & Pillage
Atlantic Canada's Brutal and Bloodthirsty Pirates and Privateers
by Harold Horwood
Plenty of fast-paced action by lawless pillagers and opportunists.
For over three hundred years, lawlessness in Canada flourished off Canada's east coast. Pirates roamed the North Atlantic, and master storyteller Harold Horwood recounts their action-filled careers, crimes and violent deaths. Privateerslicenced by governments to harass the enemyaimed to capture enemy ships and plunder their cargo.
Among the characters readers meet in these pages are the folk hero, Peter Easton, still celebrated as a great Newfoundlander and famed privateer Enos Collins, the wealthiest ship owner in British North America and owner of the Black Joke.
This new collection brings together the best of Harold Horwood's writing on pirates and privateers, and offers rich, edge-of-your-seat, highseas adventure.
Among the characters readers meet in these pages are the folk hero, Peter Easton, still celebrated as a great Newfoundlander and famed privateer Enos Collins, the wealthiest ship owner in British North America and owner of the Black Joke.
This new collection brings together the best of Harold Horwood's writing on pirates and privateers, and offers rich, edge-of-your-seat, highseas adventure.
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Reviews
In Plunder & Pillage, a new collection of previously published work by the late Harold Horwood, readers are taken on a literary journey through the era of piracy on the high seas off our coast.
Ian Fairclough, Chronicle Herald
"While many of his 15 tales involve captains who stole and pillaged without any blood being spilled, not all hands are clean in this compilation of 300 years of seafaring villains who stole for themselves, or sometimes for king and country."
Ian Fairclough, The Nova Scotian
Subjects (BISAC)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws, HISTORY / Canada / General, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy
Subjects
Canadian History: Disasters and Shipwrecks, Canadian History: Nautical, Canadian History, Local Interest, Local Interest: Disasters and Shipwrecks, Local Interest: Folklore, Supernatural & Ghosts, Local Interest: New Brunswick, Local Interest: Newfoundland & Labrador, Local Interest: Nova Scotia, Local Interest: Prince Edward Island