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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
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Almost immediately they trapped and overpowered an enormous Portuguese carrack. She was so laden with Indian piece goods, mostly white calicoes and the famous batiks or ‘pintadoes’ of southern India, that it took six days to unload her.
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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