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Captain in Calico is a 2015 novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It was published seven years after his death in 2008 and is about the pirate Jack Rackham. Mary Read and Anne Bonny also appear as characters in this novel. Plot. Jack Rackham asks the governor of the Bahamas, Woodes Rogers, for a royal pardon. Rogers agrees for his own reasons.
- United Kingdom
- George MacDonald Fraser
- 2015
- HarperCollins
On a tranquil evening in the Bahamas, Calico Jack, long wanted on counts of piracy, makes a surprise appearance at the Governor’s residence and asks for a pardon. A deal is brokered after Jack...
The first unpublished novel from the historical fiction legend George MacDonald Fraser, featuring the unscrupulous and brilliantly entertaining pirate, Calico Jack Rackham. New Providence, 1720s. When infamous pirate Captain "Calico" Jack Rackham returns from the high seas to ask Governor Woodes Rogers for a royal pardon, the Governor sees his ...
8 de sept. de 2015 · 3.34. 266 ratings51 reviews. George MacDonald Fraser was famed for his legendary Flashman series, featuring the incorrigible knave Harry Flashman. In the colorful standalone novel Captain in Calico , which has never been published, Fraser introduces another real-life Captain John Rackham, called “Calico Jack,” an illustrious ...
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The first unpublished novel from the historical fiction legend, George Macdonald Fraser, featuring the unscrupulous and brilliantly entertaining pirate, Calico Jack Rackham. New Providence, 1720s. When infamous pirate Captain 'Calico' Jack Rackham returns from the high seas to ask Governor Woodes Rogers for a royal pardon, the Governor sees his ...
Set in early 18 th -century Jamaica, Captain in Calico stars the notorious pirate Calico Jack Rackham, here shown chasing a king’s pardon, or a woman, or a ship full of silver, depending on the needs of the plot.
6 de oct. de 2015 · In the colorful standalone novel Captain in Calico, a never-before-published literary find, Fraser introduces another real-life anti-hero: Captain John Rackham, called “Calico Jack,” an illustrious eighteenth-century pirate who marauded the Caribbean seas.
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- George MacDonald Fraser
