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Product Description Blackbeard, known as North Carolina's own pirate, roamed the seas from the Carolina's to Maine, pillaging and robbing any vessel which dared to cross his path. In June of 1718, he deliberately his flagship aground off the Beaufort Inlet. In November of 1996, Mike Daniel of Intersal, a private research company, located a wreckage believed to be Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, two miles off Beaufort, North Carolina. State archeologists have retrieved and conserved a wide assortment of artifacts from the ship, with many more yet to be recovered. Review "Ms. Day has an eminently readable style of writing, very uncomplicated and geared toward the reader/researcher as well as the young reader. --North Carolina Society of Historians Jean Day has hit the nail on the head with this book! She tells about the man, Blackbeard, as well as his ship and what happened to it. No other single book tells about both. --Rusty Borowitz - N.C. HistorianJean Day has hit the nail on the head with this book! She tells about the man, Blackbeard, as well as his ship and what happened to it. No other single book tells about both. --Rusty Borowitz - N.C. Historian About the Author Jean Day, After raising six sons, Enroled in East Carolina University. After graduating, she began writing about local history. She has since broaded her spectrum of writing. Her most popular book, Blackbeard, terror of the Seas has sold thousands of copies. This book was THE number one selling book on Blackbeard for many years, until she decided to write her newest book, Blackbeard and the Queen Anne's Revenge.