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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Cordingly |
| ISBN: | 081297722X 9780812977226 |
| OCLC Number: | 70067406 |
| Description: | xxi, 296 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Wooden legs and parrots -- Plundering the treasure ports -- Sir Henry Morgan -- Women pirates and pirates' women -- Storms, shipwrecks, and life at sea -- Into action under the pirate flag -- Torture, violence, and marooning -- Pirate islands and other haunts -- Sloops, schooners, and pirate films -- Captain Kidd and buried treasure -- Hunting down the pirates -- Trials, executions, and hanging in chains -- Afterword: the romance of piracy -- Glossary of sea terms. |
| Responsibility: | David Cordingly. |
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Abstract:
A revisionist history of the golden age of piracy draws on original archive records to provide a realistic study of pirates and their lives that refutes many of the myths about the era.
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