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On Stranger Tides

(1987)
A novel by Tim Powers

Awards
1988 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee)
1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee)

The protagonist sails to Haiti to recover his father's lost plantation & enters a Caribbean pirate empire ruled by Blackbeard, a child of voodoo whose spirit is infested with ghosts. The hero is pressed into piracy & sorcery as Blackbeard searches for the Fountain of Lost Youth.

Genre: Fantasy

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