The Lost Pirate Republic
Golden Age Chronicles of Mutiny, Maritime Rebellion, and Pirate DemocracyBy Captain Charles Johnson, Charles Ellms, Daniel Defoe
Length40h 29m
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The Lost Pirate Republic gathers foundational pirate narratives into a vivid account of the Atlantic world's brief, volatile experiment in outlaw self-government. Moving between chronicle, biography, adventure tale, moral warning, and maritime history, the volume traces Nassau and its surrounding sea lanes as spaces of commerce, violence, improvisation, and contested freedom. Portraits of notorious crews, naval confrontations, shifting alliances, and failed amnesties illuminate piracy not merely as spectacle but as a challenge to imperial order. Its varied prose registers—from documentary detail to dramatic anecdote—reveal why the pirate republic has endured as both historical episode and cultural myth. The collection brings together Captain Charles Johnson, Charles Ellms, and Daniel Defoe, writers associated with the early formation and later popularization of pirate history in English prose. Their overlapping interests in seafaring, criminality, colonial expansion, and public morality situate the book within the literary culture of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic. Read together, these voices expose the unstable boundary between archival history and imaginative narration, while preserving perspectives shaped by mercantile empire and popular print. Recommended for students of maritime history, colonial studies, and adventure literature, The Lost Pirate Republic offers an unusually rich encounter with piracy's many meanings. Readers will find a compelling dialogue among historical testimony, legend, and literary craft, gaining both a broad introduction to the pirate age and a sharper sense of how its stories were made.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length40 hrs 29 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 12, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Pirates of Panama (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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