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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... Mainwaring. Mainwaring was England's leading pirate from 1612 until his retirement in 1617. He was knighted in 1618 and appointed a Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber. Later he became Lieutenant of Dover Castle and M.P. for Dover. There ...
... Mainwaring. Mainwaring was England's leading pirate from 1612 until his retirement in 1617. He was knighted in 1618 and appointed a Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber. Later he became Lieutenant of Dover Castle and M.P. for Dover. There ...
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... Mainwaring, the son of an old Shropshire family. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he matriculated at twelve and gained his B.A. three years later (1602). After working first as a lawyer and then as a soldier, he took to the sea ...
... Mainwaring, the son of an old Shropshire family. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he matriculated at twelve and gained his B.A. three years later (1602). After working first as a lawyer and then as a soldier, he took to the sea ...
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... Mainwaring dead or alive. Sailing from Cadiz the squadron met Mainwaring with only three ships, but the Spanish were decisively beaten. The King of Spain then offered Mainwaring a free pardon and a salary of 20,000 ducats a year to ...
... Mainwaring dead or alive. Sailing from Cadiz the squadron met Mainwaring with only three ships, but the Spanish were decisively beaten. The King of Spain then offered Mainwaring a free pardon and a salary of 20,000 ducats a year to ...
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... Mainwaring found three of their ships in the Thames as high up as Leigh, where he boarded them and released Christian captives. For this and other exploits Mainwaring was knighted in 1618 and was appointed a Gentleman of the King's ...
... Mainwaring found three of their ships in the Thames as high up as Leigh, where he boarded them and released Christian captives. For this and other exploits Mainwaring was knighted in 1618 and was appointed a Gentleman of the King's ...
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Patrick Pringle. Mainwaring, and in 1623 a pirate named John Nutt, a refugee from the press gang, commanded a fleet based on Torbay. He does not seem to have been molested by the authorities until the King, in need of men for the Navy ...
Patrick Pringle. Mainwaring, and in 1623 a pirate named John Nutt, a refugee from the press gang, commanded a fleet based on Torbay. He does not seem to have been molested by the authorities until the King, in need of men for the Navy ...
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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