
By Daniel Defoe
ISBN-10: 0486404889
ISBN-13: 9780486404882
ISBN-10: 0872492702
ISBN-13: 9780872492707
ISBN-10: 1504768647
ISBN-13: 9781504768641
Famed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe additionally possessed massive services in maritime affairs. As a fee service provider, importer, shipowner, and an energetic journalist who mentioned "ship information" and interviewed surviving pirates, Defoe accomplished a excessive measure of authority just about buccaneers. His wisdom used to be such that his e-book, A common background of the Pyrates, continues to be the most important resource of data approximately piracy within the first zone of the 18th century.
Reprinted the following in its entirety, this interesting background abounds in stories of flamboyant outlaws and their bloody deeds: Captain Edward educate, alias Blackbeard; Captain William Kidd, whose trial and execution created a sensation all through London and the realm; Bartholomew Roberts, some of the most profitable pirates of the period, whose crews captured an expected four hundred prizes in 3 years; Mary learn and Anne Bonny, who disguised themselves as males to sail lower than the Jolly Roger with the ill-fated Captain John Rackham; and plenty of more.
An engrossing combination of truth and fiction — incorporating Defoe's celebrated aptitude for journalistic element — those vigorous stories of seafaring rogues and rascals and their ill-gotten profits will captivate armchair sailors, maritime lovers and any lover of event at the excessive seas. This specified paintings has been edited via famous pupil Manuel Schonhorn, who has additionally provided a provocative Postscript to the Dover variation supplying insights into the substantial acclaim for this topic in cutting-edge theater, videos, television specials, journal articles, lavish books, and maritime exhibitions. In an extra "Note at the writer and the Text," Professor Schonhorn additionally examines the arguments for and opposed to Defoe's very authorship of this significant book.
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