THE BOOK OF PIRATES: 70+ Adventure Classics, Legends & True History of the Notorious Buccaneers
70+ Classic Tales and True Chronicles of BuccaneersBy Captain Charles Johnson, Howard Pyle, Charles Ellms, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Stanley Lane-Poole, Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Ralph D. Paine, Richard Le Gallienne, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, Jules Verne, Charles Boardman Hawes, J. M. Barrie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne, Charles Dickens, L. Frank Baum, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexandre Dumas, William Hope Hodgson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harold MacGrath, Harry Collingwood, W. H. G. Kingston, G. A. Henty, Joseph Lewis French
Length480h 48m
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THE BOOK OF PIRATES: 70+ Adventure Classics, Legends & True History of the Notorious Buccaneers surveys piracy as historical fact, maritime myth, and inexhaustible imaginative resource. Its expansive selection moves from purported chronicles and biographical accounts to sea romances, Gothic tales, juvenile adventure, imperial fiction, and modernist-inflected narratives. Reports of notorious buccaneers stand beside enduring fictional voyages, allowing the volume to trace how the pirate became alternately criminal, rebel, imperial antagonist, comic rogue, and emblem of freedom. The range is its chief distinction: documentary claims and sensational legend continually illuminate—and complicate—one another. The contributors collectively represent several centuries of Anglophone and European writing, from early accounts associated with Captain Charles Johnson and John Esquemeling to nineteenth-century historical romance and twentieth-century adventure fiction. Novelists, travel writers, historians, and popular storytellers bring distinct national, commercial, and ideological assumptions to the sea. Their works participate in the traditions of naval history, Romantic exoticism, boys' adventure literature, Gothic fantasy, and the transatlantic romance of exploration, revealing piracy's changing cultural uses. This volume is recommended for readers of maritime literature, popular fiction, and cultural history. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare narrative modes and competing visions of lawlessness, empire, danger, and desire within a single collection. Read together, these texts provide both pleasurable adventure and a revealing dialogue between archival history and literary invention.
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Table of contents
1Sinister Island (Annotated)
2True Stories of the Notorious Pirates
3The Preface
4Introduction
5Chapter I. Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
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6Chapter II. Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
7Chapter III. Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
8Chapter IV. Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
9Chapter V. Of Capt. Edward England, And his Crew
10Chapter VI. Of Captain Charles Vane, And his Crew
11Chapter VII. Of Captain John Rackam, And his Crew
12Chapter VIII. The Life of Mary Read, And Anne Bonny
13Chapter IX. Of Captain Howel Davis, And his Crew
14Chapter X. Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 1)
15Chapter X. Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 2)
16Chapter XI. Of Captain Anstis, And his Crew
17Chapter XII. Of Captain Worley, And his Crew
18Chapter XIII. Of Capt. George Lowther, And his Crew
19Chapter XIV. Of Captain Edward Low, And his Crew
20Chapter XV. Of Capt. John Evans, And his Crew
21Chapter XVI. Of Captain John Phillips, And his Crew
22Chapter XVII. Of Captain Spriggs, And his Crew
23Chapter XVIII. An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
24Chapter XIX. An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
25Chapter XX. Of Captain Misson
26Chapter XXI. Of Capt. JOHN Bowen
27Chapter XXII. Of Capt. WILLIAM KID
28Chapter XXIII. Of Captain Tew, And his Crew
29Chapter XXIV. Of Capt. Halsey, And his Crew
30Chapter XXV. Of Captain Thomas White, And his Crew
31Chapter XXVI. Of Captain Condent, And his Crew
32Chapter XXVII. A Description of Magadoxa
33Chapter XXVIII. Of Capt. Bellamy
34Chapter XXIX. Of Captain William Fly, And his Crew
35Chapter XXX. Of Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew
36Chapter XXXI. Of Captain Lewis. And his Crew
37Chapter XXXII. Of Captain Cornelius, And his Crew
38Chapter XXXIII. Of Capt. David Williams, And his Crew
39Chapter XXXIV. Of Capt. Samuel Burgess, And his Crew
40Appendix
41I. Of Capt. Nathaniel North, And his Crew
42II. Of Captain Teach
43III. Of Major Bonnet
44IV. Of Captain Worley
45V. Of Captain Martel
46VI. The Trial of the Pyrates at Providence
47VII. Of Captain Vane
48VIII. Of Captain Bowen
49Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy (Howard Pyle)
50Foreword
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