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Product Description: [MP3CD audiobook format in Vinyl case][Read by Patrick Cullen] This definitive biography of William Clarke Quantrill reveals the characteristics and events that led a quiet Ohio schoolteacher to become the most feared and notorious guerrilla of the Civil War...read more

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Product Description: Subtitled True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors, this is the ultimate book of ordeals, with remarkable stories of castaways and other survivors from the 1500s to the present. Included are accounts of shipwrecks, descriptions of being marooned in isolated corners of the globe, and an account by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry of his experience in the Libyan desert...read more

Product Description: This definitive biography of William Clarke Quantrill reveals the characteristics and events that led a quiet Ohio schoolteacher to become the most feared and notorious guerrilla of the Civil War. A virulently pro-slavery Confederate soldier and a brilliant tactician, Quantrill was a charismatic warrior who attracted hundreds of followers to his side--notably the teenaged Frank James, Jesse James, and Cole Younger...read more

A profile of the infamous Civil War guerrilla fighter (view table of contents)

Explores the lives of survivors who were shipwrecked, banished, or abandoned during the past several centuries.