A General History of the Pyrates (Dover Maritime)

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Famed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe also possessed considerable expertise in maritime affairs. As a commission merchant, importer, shipowner, and an active journalist who reported “ship news” and interviewed surviving pirates, Defoe achieved a high degree of authority in relation to buccaneers. His knowledge was once such that his book, A General History of the Pyrates, remains the major source of information about piracy in the first quarter of the 18th century.
Reprinted here in its entirety, this fascinating history abounds in tales of flamboyant outlaws and their bloody deeds: Captain Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard; Captain William Kidd, whose trial and execution created a sensation during London and the world; Bartholomew Roberts, one of the crucial successful pirates of the era, whose crews captured an estimated 400 prizes in three years; Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who disguised themselves as men to sail under the Jolly Roger with the in poor health-fated Captain John Rackham; and plenty of more.
An engrossing blend of fact and fiction — incorporating Defoe’s celebrated flair for journalistic detail — these full of life tales of seafaring rogues and rascals and their in poor health-gotten gains will captivate armchair sailors, maritime enthusiasts and any lover of adventure at the high seas. This unique work has been edited by noted scholar Manuel Schonhorn, who has also supplied a provocative Postscript to the Dover Edition offering insights into the vast popularity of this subject in as of late’s theater, movies, TV specials, magazine articles, lavish books, and maritime exhibitions. In an added “Note at the Creator and the Text,” Professor Schonhorn also examines the arguments for and against Defoe’s very authorship of this important book.


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