The History of the Lost Pirate Kingdom
Chronicles of Golden Age Sea Rovers, Atlantic Rebellion, and the Making of Pirate LegendBy Charles Ellms, Daniel Defoe, Captain Charles Johnson
Length40h 30m
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The History of the Lost Pirate Kingdom gathers maritime history, criminal biography, travel narrative, and sensational adventure around the brief but enduringly potent world of Atlantic piracy. Its materials evoke the contested sea-lanes of the early eighteenth century, where imperial commerce, colonial frontiers, mutiny, and outlaw communities converged. Moving between documentary-sounding chronicle, vivid anecdote, moral caution, and tales of peril, the collection illuminates both the historical pirate republic and the literary machinery through which it became legendary. The volume brings together Charles Ellms, Daniel Defoe, and Captain Charles Johnson, writers associated in different ways with the preservation and invention of pirate lore. Defoe's fiction and reportage helped establish a supple prose vocabulary for economic ambition, displacement, and survival, while Johnson's influential pirate histories shaped the biographies and reputations of sea rovers for generations. Ellms, writing later, extended this tradition of popular historical compilation. Read together, these voices reveal piracy as a cultural battleground in which Enlightenment commerce, colonial expansion, social disorder, and fantasies of liberty were negotiated. Recommended for students and general readers of maritime history, Atlantic studies, and adventure literature, this volume offers an unusually rich encounter with piracy's competing meanings. It invites readers to compare styles, assess the interplay of fact and legend, and trace how disparate narratives transform a short-lived political experiment into a lasting literary myth.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length40 hrs 30 mins
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Publish dateMar 12, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
4Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
5Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
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6Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
7Of Capt. Edward England, And his Crew
8Of Captain Charles Vane, And his Crew
9Of Captain John Rackam, And his Crew
10The Life of Mary Read, And Anne Bonny
11Of Captain Howel Davis, And his Crew
12Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 1)
13Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 2)
14Of Captain Anstis, And his Crew
15Of Captain Worley, And his Crew
16Of Capt. George Lowther, And his Crew
17Of Captain Edward Low, And his Crew
18Of Capt. John Evans, And his Crew
19Of Captain John Phillips, And his Crew
20Of Captain Spriggs, And his Crew
21An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
22An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
23Of Captain Misson
24Of Capt. John Bowen
25Of Capt. William Kid
26Of Captain Tew, And his Crew
27Of Capt. Halsey, And his Crew
28Of Captain Thomas White, And his Crew
29Of Captain Condent, And his Crew
30A Description of Magadoxa
31Of Capt. Bellamy
32Of Captain William Fly, And his Crew
33Of Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew
34Of Captain Lewis. And his Crew
35Of Captain Cornelius, And his Crew
36Of Capt. David Williams, And his Crew
37Of Capt. Samuel Burgess, And his Crew
38The Pirate Gow
39The Life of Lafitte, the Famous Pirate of the Gulf of Mexico
40The Life of Charles Gibbs
41History of the Adventures, Capture and Execution of the Spanish Pirates
42The Bloody Career and Execution of Vincent Benavides a Pirate on the West Coast of South America
43The West India Pirates
44The Pirates of Panama (A True Account by a Pirate)
45Chapter II
46Chapter III
47Chapter IV
48Chapter V
49Chapter VI
50Chapter VII
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