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by: James L. Nelson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781590130605
ISBN: 159013060X
Label: McBooks Press
Manufacturer: McBooks Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: October 01, 2004
Publisher: McBooks Press
Sales Rank: 118433
Studio: McBooks Press
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Fed up with an outlaw existence, Calico Jack Rackam swears off the pirate life, until he meets Anne Bonny, a woman who would as soon stab a man as give him a good tumble--that is, unless he's a pirate. Soon Jack finds himself out on the high seas, with Anne by his side and his men spoiling for action.
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Rating: - Calico Jack, Ann and Mary
If you like pirate stories, this is the book for you. Fictionalized history but very informative. Will read more books by this author.
Rating:  - Fascinating Read!
This is one of the best books I've ever read. The subject matter was gripping -- women pirates and how they got to be pirates! I thought the characterizations were excellent and felt myself really caring about these people. I feel James Nelson did a masterful job telling this fascinating story, and it was so realistically done that I really felt I was there watching everything. I highly recommend it -- definitely different, eminently interesting! Kudos to James L. Nelson -- a wonderful story teller!!
Rating: - Whose life mattered?
Fictional account of the true-life pirates of the subtitle. The brief afterword explains the historicity and references the few primary sources.
Think "Pirates of the Caribbean", the R rated non-Disney version. Sometimes reads like history with a bare frame work of fictionalization, but generally flows well as a story and sounds plausibly like what we think we know a pirate's life was like. Of course the comparison also suggests that the book is more entertaining than fulfilling, and this ... Read More
Rating: - Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
One of the more romanticized villains in history is the noble pirate, the seafaring reaver with gleam in his eye and a heart of gold. Nowhere is this more evident than in tales of the sea queens, the rare but all too real women in pirate's clothing. The most famous of these are Anne Bonny and Mary Read, who sailed with Calico Jack Rackam in the Caribbean in the early 1700s.
Based on what historical records exist detailing their lives, James L. Nelson's "The Only Life That Mattered" weaves a ... Read More
Rating:  - Do not waste your money
I have only read 34 pages of "The Only Life That Mattered", but my life matters too much to me to read any more. How this author has ten books in print is beyond my comprehension; both he and his editor(s) should be strung up by their thumbs. It's not just bad writing, it's lazy writing. There are numerous sentence fragments. There are factual inaccuracies. Sentences, even paragraphs, are started with "And" and "But". I could go on and on, but it is not worth my time. I have made corrections and will send ... Read More
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