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  • Series: Goodread Biographies
  • Imprint: Formac Publishing Company Limited
  • Publication Date: 1 January 1988
  • Copyright Year: 1988
  • ISBN: 9780887801570
  • Page Count: 232
  • Dimensions: 4.25" x 7"

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Bandits and Privateers

Canada in the Age of Gunpowder

by Ed Butts and Harold Horwood

Convincing proof that Canadian history is anything but dull, this book recounts the action-filled careers of some of the country's most successful and violent adventurers, licit and illicit.
Convincing proof that Canadian history is anything but dull, this book recounts the action-filled careers of some of the country's most successful and violent adventurers, licit and illicit.
From Elizabethan privateers seeking fortune off the coasts of Newfoundland to the courtly warriors of Acadia, from the wildly successful letter-of-marque ships of Liverpool, Nova Scotia to the vicious sea fights of the War of 1812, Horwood and Butts reconstruct the lives of the country's finest fighting seamen. Inland, they consider the less reputable careers of the gangs who fought for control of gold and timber in the raw frontier settlements that would one day be Canada.
Featuring plently of fast-paced action Bandits and Privateers brings the excitement of Canadian history to life.

About the Authors

Ed Butts

Ed Butts
Toronto-born writer ED BUTTS has written a two-volume history of crime of Canada with Harold Harwood.

Harold Horwood

HAROLD HORWOOD combined a literary ambition with early experience as a labour union organizer and a close collaborator of Newfoundland's first premier Joey Smallwood in the campaign for Confederation. He later became an author, and with his organizing experience was the natural choice as founding vice-chair of The Writers' Union of Canada and later chair, 1980-81. He was the author 24 books in total; five fiction, many types of non-fiction, and one poetry anthology. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 1980.

Reviews

"it's intriguing stuff, if at times grisly."
Vancouver Sun
"Canadian history with a bang."
Vancouver Sun
"Nice, neat accounts of our more interesting villains."
Globe and Mail

Subjects (BISAC)

HISTORY / Canada / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General

Subjects

Canadian Biography, Canadian Biography: Seafarers, Canadian Biography: True Crime, Canadian History: Nautical

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