Pirate Narratives (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea RobbersBy Charles Ellms
Length15h 1m
About this audiobook
Pirate Narratives gathers sensational yet historically rooted accounts of maritime outlawry, recounting the exploits, trials, cruelties, and dramatic ends of notorious pirates from the Atlantic world and beyond. Written in a vigorous nineteenth-century prose style, the work blends documentary summary, moral commentary, adventure writing, and popular melodrama. Its place is best understood within the antebellum appetite for crime literature, sea tales, and didactic histories that transformed piracy into both warning and entertainment. Charles Ellms, an American compiler and popular writer active in the early nineteenth century, drew upon trial records, earlier histories, chapbooks, and seafaring lore to fashion accessible narratives for a broad reading public. His interest reflects a period when expanding commerce, naval memory, and fascination with transgression made the pirate an ideal figure through which to explore lawlessness, imperial rivalry, masculine daring, and divine or social justice. This book is recommended to readers interested in piracy not merely as legend but as a literary and cultural phenomenon. Scholars of popular print, maritime history, and crime narrative will find it especially valuable, while general readers will appreciate its vivid portraits, swift pacing, and revealing moral imagination.
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- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length15 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 12, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Pirate Narratives (Annotated)
17The Adventures of Captain Condent
2Preface
18The Life of Captain Edward Low
3Introduction
19Life and Adventures of Captain Edward England
4The Danish and Norman Pirates
20Account of the Lynn Pirates
5Adventures and Exploits of Captain Avery
21History of the Ladrone Pirates
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6The Remarkable History of the Joassamee Pirates of the Persian Gulf
22The Life of Captain Lewis
7The Barbarous Conduct and Romantic Death of the Joassamee Chief, Rahmah-Ben-Jabir
23The Life, Career and Death of Captain Thomas White
8The Life of Lafitte, the Famous Pirate of the Gulf of Mexico
24The Life, Atrocities, and Bloody Death of Black Beard
9The Life of Captain Roberts
25The Exploits, Arrest, and Execution of Captain Charles Vane
10The Life of Charles Gibbs
26The West India Pirates
11History of the Adventures, Capture and Execution of the Spanish Pirates
27The Adventures and Execution of Captain John Rackam
12The Life of Benito De Soto the Pirate of the Morning Star
28The Life and Exploits of Anne Bonney
13The Adventures of Captain Robert Kidd
29The Adventures and Heroism of Mary Read
14The Bloody Career and Execution of Vincent Benavides a Pirate on the West Coast of South America
30The Algerine Pirates
15The Life of Captain Davis
31The Adventures, Trial and Execution of Captain Gow
16Authentic History of the Malay Pirates of the Indian Ocean
32Memorable Quotes
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