Pirates

Name: Pirates
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My twenty months in the "para-naval" group The Summerland Pirates in the early seventies. The group bought and sold military equipment to raise money to buy a schooner in Nova Scotia and sail it to the Caribbean to search for Spanish treasure. Eighteen illustrations.

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Publication Date: Sep 30, 2011
Language: English
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): Brian K. Crawford

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Format: PDF

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Summerland Pirates schooners memoirs hippies

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About Brian Crawford

Brian Crawford lives in Marin County, California, with his wife and son. In addition to several collections of short fiction and a series of memoirs about his hippie days, he has written Toki, a historical novel about the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga. He has also reprinted a number of out-of-print books about Pacific exploration. His fiction has been published in the print magazines Bust-Out Stories and Paradox Historical Fiction, and the online journals Slow Trains, e-clips, Clean Sheets, Sedona’s Attic, and Oysters and Chocolate, where his story The Heat won a Grand Prize. Born in Ohio in 1947, Crawford attended Antioch College but dropped out and went to Haight-Ashbury for the Summer of Love. After several years and many adventures on the road, he joined a group that bought a schooner in Nova Scotia and Crawford served as Second Officer, sailing it down the East Coast. Later he went to Tonga in the South Pacific, where he met his future wife Linda and sailed to Australia

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