Dead Men Tell No Tales: The Life and Legends of the Pirate Charles Gibbs

by Joseph Gibbs

Book Overview

A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean

Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But shortly before execution for mutiny and murder in 1831, the enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous crimes of his harrowing life at sea in a self-aggrandizing series of "confessions." Wildly popular reading among nineteenth-century audiences, such criminal confessions were peppered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570036934
• ISBN13: 9781570036934
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"