
The True Pirates of the Caribbean (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Golden Age Buccaneers, Caribbean Adventure, and the Truth Behind Pirate Myth and LegendBy Daniel Defoe, Charles Ellms, Captain Charles JohnsonLength40h 33m
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The True Pirates of the Caribbean gathers influential pirate narratives into a compelling archive of maritime crime, imperial expansion, and popular legend. Ranging from purportedly factual criminal biography to sensational adventure chronicle, these texts illuminate the unstable boundary between documentary history and literary invention. Accounts of mutiny, plunder, execution, and life at sea give the collection both the force of social history and the narrative momentum of romance, while its portraits of notorious captains reveal how Caribbean piracy became a durable subject of Anglophone imagination. Associated with Daniel Defoe, Captain Charles Johnson, and Charles Ellms, the volume brings together writers and compiler-historians whose work helped codify the pirate as a figure of danger, independence, and imperial disruption. Johnson's authorship remains historically debated, a fact that usefully underscores the collaborative, commercially mediated character of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century print culture. Across differing periods and styles, these voices register the Atlantic world's entanglement of trade, colonial violence, seafaring labor, and criminality, linking early pirate biography to later popular historical writing. Recommended for students of Atlantic history, maritime literature, and the origins of pirate myth, this collection offers an unusually rich encounter with multiple literary and historical perspectives. Readers will find in its converging narratives a valuable education in how records, rumors, moral judgments, and adventure conventions together fashioned the "true" pirate.
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Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (16)
Includes Amazon
GenreHistory
Length40 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 17, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The True Pirates of the Caribbean (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)
45The Pirates of Panama
46The Buccaneers of America
47Chapter I
48Chapter II
49Chapter III
50Chapter IV