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The End of Calico Jack
- Caribbean Chronicles, Book 3
- Narrated by: Samuel Shoemaker-Trejo
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary
2020 Selah Award Winner for YA Literature
In this YA pirate tale, award-winning author Eddie Jones blends action, adventure, and humor into a fictional retelling of the pirate exploits of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read.
While searching for rumored treasure in a cave on Coffin Cay, a small island off the southwestern tip of Haiti (Hispaniola), Ricky suffers an absence seizure. During his last trance-like episode, Ricky uncovered a treasure from the Nuestra Señora de Riqueza, a vessel in an armada of ships sailing the Spanish Main. Now back on Coffin Cay with his parents, Ricky hunts for the treasure he found in the cave over 300 years earlier during his trip back to pirate land.
The End of Calico Jack is a fictional retelling of the pirate escapades of Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read. The story is based on historical research of the life of "Calico Jack" John Rackham. Some liberties have been taken in the telling of the story, but many of the events reflect what historians believed happened to Jack, Mary, and Anne. Also, in real life, those who suffer absence seizures may appear to be in a trance but cannot recall what happens during their episode. The book includes a pirate map of Calico Jack's sailing routes and the ports he visited.
Listeners are leaders! The Caribbean Chronicles Series is a popular book series for boys who don't like to read. Written for the general market (G) (I): contains no sexual dialogue or strong language.
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- Julie
- 09-03-21
A swashbuckling adventure
This isn't my normal type of audio book ( I like cozy mysteries) but I fancied a change and had listened to a book by this author before, so gave it ago. Not sure what I was expecting but I quite enjoyed it. It is a fast moving adventure that takes you from one battle to the next. As the author send most pirate books or films romanticize pirates but this book certainly doesn't, they is no gory details but lots of lost arms, legs and lives. The author obviously did a lot of fact checking and research and because of this he has created a very vivid picture with just his words alone. Anybody that wanted to be a pirate when they grew up especially after the release of the Jack Sparrow films and let's face it who doesn't love a treasure hunt, won't after reading this but it definitely makes for a good tale. I liked the main character (the rest were fun and quirk but didn't tend to be around for long) and it was interesting the way he had to keep out smarting or lying to the pirates to order to survive.
Ricky Bradshaw suffers from epilepsy but not your normal type, his take him back in time to where he finds himself at the mercy of pirates. In order to survive, he has no other choice really, he teams up with three of the worst Calico Jack, Ann Bonny, and Mary Read and travels with them and there motley crew as they plunder and loot other vessels. Can Ricky out wit the pirates at there own game?I
I liked the narrator he makes for a very good pirate.
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