Great Stirrup Cay

The Republic of Pirates

Colin Woodard

Nassau was the real capital of the pirate world — Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, and the golden age of piracy came alive on these islands.

Islands in the Stream

Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's Bahamas — fishing, drinking, and loneliness in the waters around Bimini. The old man and the Caribbean sea.

An Embarrassment of Mangoes

Ann Vanderhoof

A couple sails the Caribbean for two years — the food, the islands, and the irresistible freedom of life on the water.