Author: Harold Horwood & Ed Butts. Published by Goodread Biographies, imprint of Formac Publishing, Halifax, NS., 1988, 1st Edition paperback. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book.
BANDITS AND PRIVATEERS, are true stories of the colourful Canadian rogues and scoundrels, in the time of gunpowder, who bring Canadian History to life.
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.
