Unaware of his changing fortunes, off the coast of Africa, Captain Kidd meets an English commodore anxious to press 30 men into the Navy. The ship is a week out of port when his partner Robert Livingston writes to the Duke of Shrewsbury that “Captain Kidd was constrained to make new conditions with his men…and hath only reserved 40 shares for the ship.” He recommends the ship be seized. His effort to line up a crew to hunt pirates fails until he promises terms more favorable to the men, less to the backers. Captain Kidd sails in at the helm of the 32-gun Adventure Galley, short-handed due to a press gang taking his best sailors in London. He describes Dutch girls with colorful stockings and a silversmith who turns pirate loot into objets d’art. There’s an exciting sense of discovery as author Richard Zacks peels back the layers of history and shows us 1696 Manhattan. The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
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