The Pirates' Chronicles: Greatest Sea Adventure Books & Treasure Hunt Tales
Classic Pirate Adventures, Buried Treasure, Mutiny, and Ghostly SeasBy Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Walter Scott, Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Ellms, Frederick Marryat, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, Harry Collingwood, Stanley Lane-Poole, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph D. Paine, Captain Charles Johnson, W. H. G. Kingston, Currey E. Hamilton, John Esquemeling
Length480h 12m
About this audiobook
The Pirates' Chronicles: Greatest Sea Adventure Books & Treasure Hunt Tales surveys the maritime imagination from early modern buccaneering legend to modern adventure fiction. Its selections range across sea chronicles, historical romance, Gothic terror, boys' adventure, detective-inflected mystery, fantasy, and tales of imperial travel. Shipboard mutiny, buried gold, privateering, exotic coasts, and the unstable boundary between lawlessness and heroism recur throughout, while especially memorable episodes of maps, islands, wrecks, and spectral seas reveal how pirate fiction transforms historical violence into enduring narrative myth. The volume gathers an unusually expansive transatlantic and European company of writers, including canonical novelists, popular storytellers, historians of piracy, and architects of juvenile adventure. Their diverse careers illuminate the development of the sea tale through Romantic historical fiction, Victorian sensationalism, imperial adventure, American frontier-inflected romance, and early twentieth-century pulp. Together, these voices preserve accounts associated with actual maritime predation while reworking them into ethical dramas of courage, greed, loyalty, colonial encounter, and freedom. The collection thus situates piracy within both literary history and the broader cultural invention of the ocean as a space of danger and possibility. Recommended for students, scholars, and general readers of adventure literature, this anthology offers a rich comparative voyage through changing representations of the pirate world. Its breadth invites readers to trace recurring motifs across sharply different styles and periods, while its internal dialogue deepens appreciation of the genre's historical sources, imaginative power, and continuing appeal.
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Rating★★★★ 4.4 (16)
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length480 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 17, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Greatest Horrors of William Hope Hodgson (Annotated)
2The Pirates' Chronicles: Greatest Sea Adventure Books & Treasure Hunt Tales
3True Stories of the Notorious Pirates
4The Preface
5Introduction
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6Chapter I. Of Captain Avery, And his Crew
7Chapter II. Of Captain Martel, And his Crew
8Chapter III. Of Captain Teach, alias Black-beard
9Chapter IV. Of Major Stede Bonnet, And his Crew
10Chapter V. Of Capt. Edward England, And his Crew
11Chapter VI. Of Captain Charles Vane, And his Crew
12Chapter VII. Of Captain John Rackam, And his Crew
13Chapter VIII. The Life of Mary Read, And Anne Bonny
14Chapter IX. Of Captain Howel Davis, And his Crew
15Chapter X. Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 1)
16Chapter X. Of Captain Bartho. Roberts, And his Crew (pt. 2)
17Chapter XI. Of Captain Anstis, And his Crew
18Chapter XII. Of Captain Worley, And his Crew
19Chapter XIII. Of Capt. George Lowther, And his Crew
20Chapter XIV. Of Captain Edward Low, And his Crew
21Chapter XV. Of Capt. John Evans, And his Crew
22Chapter XVI. Of Captain John Phillips, And his Crew
23Chapter XVII. Of Captain Spriggs, And his Crew
24Chapter XVIII. An Account of the Pyracies and Murders committed by Philip Roche, &c.
25Chapter XIX. An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
26Chapter XX. Of Captain Misson
27Chapter XXI. Of Capt. JOHN Bowen
28Chapter XXII. Of Capt. WILLIAM KID
29Chapter XXIII. Of Captain Tew, And his Crew
30Chapter XXIV. Of Capt. Halsey, And his Crew
31Chapter XXV. Of Captain Thomas White, And his Crew
32Chapter XXVI. Of Captain Condent, And his Crew
33Chapter XXVII. A Description of Magadoxa
34Chapter XXVIII. Of Capt. Bellamy
35Chapter XXIX. Of Captain William Fly, And his Crew
36Chapter XXX. Of Capt. Thomas Howard, And his Crew
37Chapter XXXI. Of Captain Lewis. And his Crew
38Chapter XXXII. Of Captain Cornelius, And his Crew
39Chapter XXXIII. Of Capt. David Williams, And his Crew
40Chapter XXXIV. Of Capt. Samuel Burgess, And his Crew
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
50Foreword
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