| #2459825 in Books | 2001-08-09 | 2001-08-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .68 x5.70 x8.48l,.76 | File Name: 0486418235 | 294 pages
||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Based on fact, not fiction|By A Customer|I enjoyed this book. It deals mainly with western pirates during the 'Golden Age' of piracy. Mr. Pringle compiled his information from court records of trials and other public records in England, the U.S. and the Caribbean islands,in addition to journals and other published accounts. This view is not so romantic, and does not contain|From Library Journal|We all know the literary and Hollywood image of pirates as one-eyed, rum-swilling brutes sailing the seas in search of booty. While that has some basis in reality, no one ever really walked a plank or strolled around with a parrot on his
"Highly entertaining and well-documented." — TheNew York Times While history has painted most pirates as "abominable brutes," capable of the worst cruelties and driven by insatiable greed, the author of this fascinating study insists that pirates have suffered more than their share of bad press, mainly from popularizing writers trying to sell books. He notes, for example, that Henry Morgan always carried privateering commissions signed by the... [PDF.hd05] Jolly Roger (Dover Maritime) Rating: 4.91 (411 Votes)
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