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Laddar... Captain Bully Hayes : blackbirder and bigamistav Frank Clune
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"The American sea captain known as Bully Hayes, who roamed the Pacific Ocean from the 1860s to the 1870s, was described during his lifetime as a "rogue, rascal, barrator, bigamist, buccaneer, blackbirder, and pirate". Frank Clune has investigated the legend of Bully Hayes, and now presents a new interpretation. He asserts that Hayes, though far from being a paragon of virtue, was never proved guilty of most of the heinous offences alleged against him, and that he was always given "the malice of the doubt". Though debunking a large part of Hayes villainy, this book leaves him plenty of colour and many adventures, with shipwrecks, kidnapping, love affairs, marriages, and narrow escapes from creditors, savages, and the arm of the law. The story of Bully Hayes involves the deeds of other blackbirders, some of whom really were as bad as legend painted Hayes, and of cannibals and headhunters, naval captains and missionary martyrs, who lived and died violently amid the paradisal beauty of the islands of the South Seas." -- Inside front cover. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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