Über den Autor
Adrian Beckingham (A.K.A. The Man from Story Mountain) is a storyteller who has appeared everywhere from Glastonbury Festival to The British Museum. He is no stranger to sea faring adventures, undertaking his first international ocean voyage from England to Australia at the age of three. He qualified for his full power boat license on his 16th birthday, and also co-ordinated Greenpeace anti-whaling campaigns in the 1990s.
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Sheath your swords and holster your pistols. I have a tale that's waited three hundred years to be told! This is a book about REAL pirates. rnIf you are a pirate, your success must be counted in one thing - treasure! John Taylor, the little known captain in this book captured more treasure than any other pirate.rnrnIn the year 1721 a pirate captain named John Taylor took the largest single prize ever on the high seas. rnHe and his crew of mutineers captured diamonds that were bound for the King of Portugal. Now they belonged to Captain Taylor.....rnrnDid he share them fairly with his men? Find out what really happened and learn some surprising pirate facts in this swashbuckling read.
