Pirates and Buried Treasure on Florida Islands

by Jack Beater

Book Overview

A timeless collection of pirate stories from Florida originally written in the late 1950s, this book includes stories of well-known and lesser known pirates and buccaneers and the treasure they left... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820010197
• ISBN13: 9780820010199
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Great Outdoors Publishing Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Read this book as a child and as an adult!

What a great read, short but so very well written, you feel as if you were right there as the many tales unfold..if this title has an interest to you, buy it! You won't regret it! The only thing you'll regret is it's not longer..

Excellent!

Book is in like new shape, an excellent read and I'll probably need to buy another one as mine will soon be "dog eared and highlighted".

Colorful tales of Florida's pirate & treasure past....

The stories told in this small gem of a book (118 pgs.) are engrossing and entertaining from cover to cover. You'll meet such characters as; pirate Jose Gaspar a.k.a "Gasparilla" (who was not just a myth around whom a yearly parade revolves in Tampa), Homer Ludwig --- an eccentric old guy in the Keys who found pirate treasure around the turn of the century and a Greek sponge diver in Tarpon Springs named Alex Pappadakus who accidentally stumbled into an undersea fortune. To name just a few.... More than simple folktales, these stories are true and well written. Author Jack Beater seems like just the type of guy who could liven up any party telling tales of Florida's rich pirate and treasure past.