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426 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
That summer afternoon in 1702, Robert Culliford disappeared into the streets of London, blending in among the footmen and the lords, the sailors and the fruit-sellers. He never appeared again in official records, and for three centuries he escaped the notoriety that he so richly deserved.
For two centuries, some British historians doubted the existence of Kidd’s French passes. In 1910, Ralph Paine, an American doing treasure-hunting research in London, found Captain Kidd’s two passes, misfiled at the Board of Trade.