LoginA General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
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Captain Charles Johnson--whom people once mistakenly thought was Daniel Defoe--is the very best source of data on Anglo-American pirates working in the so-called 'Golden Age of Piracy', c 1700. As this huge book shows, he appears to have interviewed many pirates or gained personal knowledge of them. This is not a book of myth and fable about characters who could be played by Erroll Flynnn and Tina Turner, but about real women and men, including Anne Bonney, Mary Read and Blackbeard, who made a living as a particular kind of seafarer. It makes a good companion to Marcus Rediker's analysis of seafarers (including pirates) in Betwe
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
Release date: 6 January 2002
ISBN-10 : 1585745588 | ISBN-13: 9781585745586
Release date: 6 January 2002
ISBN-10 : 1585745588 | ISBN-13: 9781585745586
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