Pirates and Palm Trees: The Bloody History of Piracy in Hawai`i and the Pacific

By Jan Tenbruggencate

The Pacific's pirates were anything but romantic. They pillaged across the Pacific for five centuries, trafficking in slavery, stolen treasure, rape and murder. They died at alarming rates from scurvy, starvation, shipwreck and often at the hands of their fellow pirates. In Pirates and Palm Trees , award-winning Hawai'i writer Jan TenBruggencate tells the stories of Pacific piracy, with its tales of intrigue, buried treasure, extraordinary violence and the brutal blackbirding years of the middle 1800s, when whole Pacific islands were depopulated to provide labor for Peruvian guano mines and sugar plantations in Fiji, Australia, Hawaii and elsewhere.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CMZWHDLX
• ISBN13: 9798867035136
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 339 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"