Jolly RogerCourier Corporation, 2012. júl. 12. - 294 oldal "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 governor of Jamaica, and that many pirates bought commissions (and pardons) from governors of the American colonies. With this in mind, Mr. Pringle tries to separate fact from fiction in chronicling the activities of the infamous men and women who sailed under the black flag during the great age of piracy. Beginning with Sir Francis Drake, the "Father of Modern Piracy," he examines the lives and deeds of such outlaws as Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Anne Bonney, and Mary Read, as well as a raft of lesser-known scoundrels, finding, for the most part, that the myths about these maritime marauders are largely overblown. Pirates, for example, never made their prisoners walk the plank. This was a nineteenth-century fiction with no basis in reality. Moreover, the atrocities pirates are accused of, if true, were no worse, and sometimes not nearly as bad, as the horrific punishments (brandings, drawing and quartering, burning alive, etc.), meted out by legitimate governments of the age. In short, while piracy undoubtedly was a fact of life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the reality was far less brutal and blood-soaked than the sensationalizing writers of the time and of a later day would have us believe. The true state of affairs is unfolded in this engrossing, impeccably accurate history, sure to delight any armchair sailor, maritime historian or old salt with its balanced, highly readable study of the seagoing brigands who sailed under the Jolly Roger. |
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... Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, by Captain Charles Johnson (London, first edition, 1724; fourth edition, enlarged, 1726). Together these two works cover the most important periods CHAPTER ONE - Abominable Brutes.
... Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, by Captain Charles Johnson (London, first edition, 1724; fourth edition, enlarged, 1726). Together these two works cover the most important periods CHAPTER ONE - Abominable Brutes.
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... Johnson is more reliable on pirates of the seventeen-twenties than on pirates of the sixteennineties. This is hardly surprising. There is no mystery about the sources of Exquemelin's information. He was a buccaneer himself, and sailed ...
... Johnson is more reliable on pirates of the seventeen-twenties than on pirates of the sixteennineties. This is hardly surprising. There is no mystery about the sources of Exquemelin's information. He was a buccaneer himself, and sailed ...
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... Johnson's book is compared with official letters from the Governors of British colonies in the West Indies. These letters confirm Johnson in many particulars, but there is nothing like the same emphasis on atrocities. There was no ...
... Johnson's book is compared with official letters from the Governors of British colonies in the West Indies. These letters confirm Johnson in many particulars, but there is nothing like the same emphasis on atrocities. There was no ...
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... Johnson, in his first edition, daringly suggested that Blackbeard had the support of the Governor of North Carolina, but later retracted this with an abject apology, although the accusation was well founded. Johnson was careful not to ...
... Johnson, in his first edition, daringly suggested that Blackbeard had the support of the Governor of North Carolina, but later retracted this with an abject apology, although the accusation was well founded. Johnson was careful not to ...
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... Johnson. “They object that the old method drew together a number of spectators,” he said. “Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most ...
... Johnson. “They object that the old method drew together a number of spectators,” he said. “Sir, executions are intended to draw spectators. If they do not draw spectators, they don't answer their purpose. The old method was most ...
Tartalomjegyzék
CHAPTER SEVEN The Last of the Buccaneers | |
CHAPTER NINE On the Account | |
CHAPTER TEN Flags Red and Black | |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Pirate Republic | |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Woodes Rogers of Nassau | |
CHAPTER NINETEEN Another Madagascar | |
CHAPTER TWENTY The Great Pirate Roberts | |
CHAPTER TWENTYONE Captain Snelgraves Story | |
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO The Decline of Piracy | |
INDEX | |
A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS | |
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