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"Crichton's ultimate adventure." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action.... A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." -- USA Today "Riveting.... Great entertainment.... The pages and minutes fly by." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer #1 New York Times bestselling au...

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Main Author: Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008
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Language:English
Published: 2009.
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Hijacking of ships > Fiction.
Jamaica > History > 17th century > Fiction.
Sea stories.
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Summary:"Crichton's ultimate adventure." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action.... A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." -- USA Today "Riveting.... Great entertainment.... The pages and minutes fly by." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer #1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton ("One of the great storytellers of our age" -- Newsday) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates, lost treasure, sword fights, duplicity, and hair-breadth escapes in the New World.
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ISBN:9780061938740
Author Notes:John Michael Crichton, known as Michael Crichton, was born on October 28, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote novels while attending Harvard University and Harvard Medical School to help pay the tuition. One of these, The Andromeda Strain, which was published in 1969, became a bestseller. After graduating summa cum laude, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute in California before becoming a full-time writer and film director.

His carefully researched novels included Eaters of the Dead, The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, and Micro. He also wrote non-fiction works including Five Patients: The Hospital Explained, Jasper Johns, and Travels. In the late 1960s, he also wrote under the pen names Jeffrey Hudson and John Lange. He has received several awards including Writer of the Year in 1970 from the Association of American Medical Writers and two Edgar Awards in 1968 and in 1979.

Many of his novels have been made into highly successful films, six of which he directed. He was also the creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning television series ER. In addition to his writing and directorial success, his expertise in information science enabled him to run a software company and develop a computer game. He died of cancer on November 4, 2008 at the age of 66.

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