{"subtitle": "fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main", "lc_classifications": ["PS2670 .B6"], "title": "Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates", "covers": [8310768], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "JUST above the northwestern shore of the old island of Hispaniola - the Santo Domingo of our day - and separated from it only by a narrow channel of some five or six miles in width, lies a queer little hunch of an island, known, because of a distant resemblance to that animal, as the Tortuga de Mar, or sea turtle."}, "subject_places": ["Spanish Main"], "first_publish_date": "1921", "key": "/works/OL2022011W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL244097A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Pirates", "Buccaneers", "Juvenile literature", "American Sea stories", "Pirates in fiction", "Buccaneers in fiction", "American Historical fiction", "Spanish Main in fiction", "Fiction, historical, general", "Juvenile fiction"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Stories and descriptions of famous pirates and buccaneers."}, "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:43:50.091782"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-12T16:27:59.733454"}}