Saturday, December 16, 2006

AHOY MATE! Enjoy PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN? Try my Pirates and Shipwrecks book - bidding is almost over!

Then you will love my book Pirates & Shipwrecks of the Graveyard. True illustrated stories of Pirates & Shipwrecks off the Outer Banks of North Carolina (The Graveyard of the Atlantic). Blackbeard, Ann Bonny & Mary Read, Calico Jack (Ann & Mary's beau and mentor)Stede Bonnet (similar to Capt. Jack Sparrow), When the Royalist Pirates from Charleston raided the small port of Beaufort, N.C. after the Revolutionary War was considered over. Otway Burns, a very successful privateer from War of 1812, who may have turned to piracy. Did he capture Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia. Read about the fabulous Theodosia, Meriweather Lewis's flame who rejected him to marry a rich planter from South Carolina, and how she tried to help her Father become Emporer of Mexico. And then how she used Meriweather Lewis to keep him from being convicted for treason. Read about her mysterious disappearance off Cape Hatteras in 1812. Was it Otway Burns, and did he take Meriweather Lewis's place as her true love?
Read about the worst pirates ever in the Graveyard......the Nazi u-booters who sank over 170 boats in the Graveyard alone. How did they get away with it, sinking many before war was declared against them?
Read firsthand account interviews with Outer Banks natives who grew up with the burning boats sinking just offshore and many bodies washing ashore, and with Nazi threatening notes mysteriously appearing posted in their little villages. Read about the association of the Devil's triangle with the Graveyard and how one little boy found God there in the midst of all the Nazi sinkings. Read about the last baby born on Cape Lookout, the Southern most of the Outer Banks, and how her Coast Guard family survived the Nazi sub invasion. You will enjoy the stories and all the great illustrations.