THE CURSE OF THE PIRATE GOLD: 7 Treasure Hunt Classics & A True History of Buccaneers and Their Robberies
Classic Treasure Hunts, Pirate Tales, and Buccaneer HistoryBy Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Macleod Raine, Jeffery Farnol, Richard Le Gallienne, Harold MacGrath, Howard Pyle, Ralph D. Paine
Length67h 2m
About this audiobook
THE CURSE OF THE PIRATE GOLD gathers seven enduring treasure-hunt narratives alongside a documentary history of buccaneering, tracing the imaginative and material afterlives of piracy. Its contents move from Gothic menace and psychological suspense to romantic adventure, nautical realism, juvenile romance, and quasi-historical chronicle. Tales of maps, buried wealth, mutiny, haunted legacies, and dangerous coasts reveal how the pirate became a flexible literary figure: criminal, rebel, specter, and promise of escape. The historical account productively counters the glamour of adventure with piracy's violence, risk, and economic realities. The contributors represent a wide transatlantic field of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular writing. Their collective careers encompass the Gothic tradition, the romance revival, boys' adventure, maritime fiction, and historical storytelling—forms central to the shaping of modern mass readership. Across these varied idioms, the volume illuminates the cultural machinery of pirate legend: inherited fears of the sea, imperial routes and rivalries, fascination with lawlessness, and the enduring appeal of hidden treasure. The juxtaposition of fiction and history enriches each mode, exposing the exchange between recorded buccaneers and their literary reinventions. Recommended for readers of adventure literature, maritime history, and Gothic romance, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with the treasure-hunt tradition. It invites comparison among distinctive styles while fostering a critical dialogue between fantasy and historical evidence. Students and general readers alike will find in it both exhilarating storytelling and a valuable guide to piracy's cultural meanings.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length67 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 5, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE RIDER OF GOLDEN BAR (A Western Adventure) (Annotated)
2Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
3Part I. The Old Buccaneer
4Chapter I. The Old Sea-dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'
5Chapter II. Black Dog Appears and Disappears
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6Chapter III. The Black Spot
7Chapter IV. The Sea Chest
8Chapter V. The Last of the Blind Man
9Chapter VI. The Captain’s Papers
10Part II. The Sea Cook
11Chapter VII. I Go to Bristol
12Chapter VIII. At the Sign of the 'Spy-Glass'
13Chapter IX. Powder and Arms
14Chapter X. The Voyage
15Chapter XI. What I Heard in the Apple Barrel
16Chapter XII. Council of War
17Part III. My Shore Adventure
18Chapter XIII. How My Shore Adventure Began
19Chapter XIV. The First Blow
20Chapter XV. The Man of the Island
21Part IV. The Stockade
22Chapter XVI. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned
23Chapter XVII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat’s Last Trip
24Chapter XVIII. Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day’s Fighting
25Chapter XIX. Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: The Garrison in the Stockade
26Chapter XX. Silver’s Embassy
27Chapter XXI. The Attack
28Part V. My Sea Adventure
29Chapter XXII. How My Sea Adventure Began
30Chapter XXIII. The Ebb-tide Runs
31Chapter XXIV. The Cruise of the Coracle
32Chapter XXV. I Strike the Jolly Roger
33Chapter XXVI. Israel Hands
34Chapter XXVII. 'Pieces of Eight'
35Part VI. Captain Silver
36Chapter XXVIII. In the Enemy’s Camp
37Chapter XXIX. The Black Spot Again
38Chapter XXX. On Parole
39Chapter XXXI. The Treasure Hunt — Flint’s Pointer
40Chapter XXXII. The Treasure Hunt — The Voice Among the Trees
41Chapter XXXIII. The Fall of a Chieftain
42Chapter XXXIV. And Last
43The Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe)
44The Pirate of Panama: A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure (William Macleod Raine)
45Chapter I. A Scrap of Paper
46Chapter II. Captain Bothwell Interrupts
47Chapter III. Concerning Doubloon Spit
48Chapter IV. The Man With the Secret
49Chapter V. We Find a Ship
50Chapter VI. The Missing Corner
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