The Privateer's Compendium: Ten Must-Read Books
Ten Classic Accounts of Private War, Prize Law, Commerce Raiding, and Age-of-Sail AdventureBy Herrick Johnstone, Charles H. L. Johnston, Edward Phillips Statham, William Betagh, Stanley Lane-Poole, J. D. Jerrold Kelley, Harry Collingwood, William O. Stoddard, James Barnes, James Otis, Quincy Wright
Length67h 51m
About this audiobook
The Privateer's Compendium: Ten Must-Read Books gathers maritime adventure, historical romance, juvenile fiction, and popular historical narrative around the charged figure of the privateer. Its selections trace the unstable boundary between licensed warfare, piracy, commerce, and imperial rivalry, presenting the sea as both a theatre of national ambition and a space of individual peril. Naval encounters, hidden cargoes, sieges, voyages, and contests of loyalty give the volume a broad tonal range, from brisk escapade to reflective historical reconstruction. The contributing writers represent a varied body of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglophone popular authors, historians, and commentators. Collectively, they draw on traditions of sea fiction, imperial-era historical writing, and literature for younger readers, traditions that transformed archival episodes and maritime legend into accessible narratives of courage and conflict. Their differing professional and literary orientations prevent privateering from appearing as a single, settled subject; instead, it emerges through competing emphases on strategy, adventure, law, national identity, and moral ambiguity. This compendium is recommended to readers of naval history, piracy studies, adventure literature, and the cultural imagination of empire. Within one volume, readers can compare distinct narrative methods and historical sensibilities while following recurring questions about authority and freedom on the ocean. It offers both an engaging entry into privateering lore and a valuable invitation to dialogue among diverse literary voices.
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GenreHistory, General Fiction
Length67 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Voyage Round the World
26WITH THE FLAG IN THE CHANNEL
2A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, By Way of the Great SOUTH SEA.
27CHAPTER II THE VOYAGE OF THE CHARMING PEGGY
3SECTION II.
28CHAPTER III BOARDED
4SECTION III.
29CHAPTER IV IN HOLLAND AND FRANCE
5SECTION IV.
30CHAPTER V COMMISSIONED
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6CHAP. III.
31CHAPTER VI THE SURPRISE
7MEMORANDUM.
32CHAPTER VII THE CHANNEL CRUISE
8The Log of a Privateersman
33CHAPTER VIII THE HARWICH PACKET
9The Log of a Privateersman
34CHAPTER IX THE ARREST
10"The Log of a Privateersman"
35CHAPTER X IN PARIS AGAIN
11Chapter One
36CHAPTER XI THE REVENGE
12Chapter Two
37CHAPTER XII SAILING ORDERS
13Chapter Three
38CHAPTER XIII IN THE CHANNEL
14Chapter Four
39CHAPTER XIV ON THE IRISH COAST
15Chapter Five
40CHAPTER XV THE CAPTURE
16Chapter Six
41CHAPTER XVI IMPRISONMENT
17Chapter Seven
42CHAPTER XVII FREEDOM
18Chapter Eight
43CHAPTER XVIII CONCLUSION
19Chapter Nine
44The Armed Ship America; Or, When We Sailed from Salem
20Chapter Ten
45CHAPTER I. AN OPPORTUNITY.
21Chapter Eleven
46CHAPTER II. UNDER WAY.
22Chapter Twelve (pt. 1)
47CHAPTER III. OMENS.
23Chapter Twelve (pt. 2)
48CHAPTER IV. GHOSTS.
24Chapter Twelve (pt. 3)
49CHAPTER V. THE PRISONERS.
25With the Flag in the Channel; or, The Adventures of Captain Gustavus Conyngham
50CHAPTER VI. A STERN CHASE.
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