In 1719 young Jack Ballister, a boy of good family, is kidnapped in England and sold as an indentured servant on a Virginia tobacco plantation. Escape brings him into the company of the notorious pirate Captain Edward Teach, called Blackbeard, and his drunken sailing-master Hands, and into a desperate effort to rescue a young lady from the pirates’ hands.
Full-blooded colonial adventure from the great American illustrator and storyteller, rich in period detail. Download the free EPUB.