A General History of the Pyrates: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates Paperback – May 15, 2017

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If you love Treasure Island, Homer's The Odyssey, Robin Hood, Kidnapped, The Gold Bug, The Outlaws of the Marsh, Dr. Syn Alias the Scarecrow, then this you will enjoy.

Excactly the book I was looking for, heard about it in a documentary about Pirates.

My copy was the Carroll & Graf edition.It was interesting to see how the pirates differed in their treatment of prisoners. Some of them were very cruel. It was also interesting to learn of the common practice of hanging the corpses of the executed pirates up in chains for public views for years after - it was also called being "sun dried".This edition had a number of typos, not real bad, but enough. Compounding the problem is Defoe puts a comma or semi-colon after every four or five words.Some Defoe's writing seemed like a hurried knock-off from newspaper accounts in some parts. Other parts seem so hurried that it's impossible to follow. The referents are hopelessly confused, you can't tell who did what. Add to that the convoluted way upper class people were beginning to express themselves, and the author just general assumes an archaic mentality and you could be scratching your head for days. This could be dealt with by annotating. Fortunately these incomprehensible passages are relatively few.Obviously an indispensable classic for the pirate fan.

This is still one of the best accounts of the golden age of piracy. Each chapter reads like a short story as the book introduces you to all the biggest names from that period. Highly recommend.

Great work on history of robberies on the high seas. All great stories include pirates !!

If you can get past the old tyme speak and phrases in this book, its a fantastic account of piracy and legendary buccaneers as seen from a true first hand account. Its a reprint of an original book published in the early 1700s. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book as any history buff truly would.

Good reference material.

Book is a great addition to any person who loves the pirate era.

The book totally worths the price, but the cover needs to change from 144p to 1080p 😂 (image attached). The rest it's just like expected.

This looked a most interesting foray into a bygone way of life and death which is just rearing its head again due largely to the spread of such activities off Somalia. It is actually a present for my soon-to-be Daughter-in-law, who is into this not inconsiderable part of our history, and she is tickled pink with it!

Good stories in the language of the seafarers of the day

I'm really into the History of Pirates and I found this book particoulary interesting as you can have a define square of most of notorious pirates in that century.