"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...

"Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's 'Golden Age'--spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s--when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond"--

A history of woodworking craftsmen in colonial America, describing their tools, materials, and workmanship.

Presents background information on cloth making in the colonies and describes the various techniques involved.

"Book provides the essential, primary documentation needed to clarify, readjust, and in some cases destroy the many commonly held myths of America's colonial past."--

His studies interrupted because of his family's poverty, a colonial Virginia youth enlists to fight the Spanish in the War of Jenkins Ear, and returns home richer in experience and adventure and with a treasure in jewels.