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Captain Kidd has truly gone down ever sold as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying treasure up and down the eastern seaboard. Nonetheless it turns out that a lot of everyone, from novelists to scholars, has the story all wrong. Captain William Kidd was no career cutthroat; he was a tough, successful NY sea captain who was simply hired to chase pirates in the 1690s. His three-year odyssey aboard the aptly named Adventure Galley would pit him against arrogant Royal Navy commanders, jealous East India Company captains, storms, starvation, angry natives, and, above all, flesh-and-blood pirates. Captain Kidd found himself facing a long-forgotten rogue by the name of Robert Culliford, who lured Kidd's crew to mutiny not once but twice.Through painstaking research, author Richard Zacks has pieced together the never-before-told story of Kidd versus Culliford, of pirate hunter versus pirate, as they fought each other within an unscripted duel over the oceans of the world. One man would hang in the harbor; the other would walk away with the treasure. The Pirate Hunter gives something rare: an authentic pirate story for grown-ups.
