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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... slave trade. The facts about this traffic have sometimes been obscured rather than enlightened by the propaganda of ... slaves than to care for the crews of the ships that carried them, which were expendable; and it is not surprising ...
... slave trade. The facts about this traffic have sometimes been obscured rather than enlightened by the propaganda of ... slaves than to care for the crews of the ships that carried them, which were expendable; and it is not surprising ...
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... slaves worse than they should have been from an economic point of view. One was the cupidity of the traders, whose profit depended on the number of slaves still alive at the end of each voyage. The other was the cupidity of captains ...
... slaves worse than they should have been from an economic point of view. One was the cupidity of the traders, whose profit depended on the number of slaves still alive at the end of each voyage. The other was the cupidity of captains ...
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... slaves dance as part of the keep-fit programme. Once the slaves tried to revolt, and were brutally punished. One man who hid in the hold was dislodged by pouring down boiling fat, which removed most of his skin. Two corpses were ...
... slaves dance as part of the keep-fit programme. Once the slaves tried to revolt, and were brutally punished. One man who hid in the hold was dislodged by pouring down boiling fat, which removed most of his skin. Two corpses were ...
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... slave trade as early as 1727, and in 1761 excluded from their ranks all who participated in it. George Fox had ... slaves. Arnold says that Williams flogged his men until they were“ a gory mass of raw flesh.” Falconbridge reports a ...
... slave trade as early as 1727, and in 1761 excluded from their ranks all who participated in it. George Fox had ... slaves. Arnold says that Williams flogged his men until they were“ a gory mass of raw flesh.” Falconbridge reports a ...
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... slave-trading, which used to be legal, is now statutory piracy. This is typical of the way in which the definition of piracy has changed from age to age. It has also varied in different countries at the same period in history. All this ...
... slave-trading, which used to be legal, is now statutory piracy. This is typical of the way in which the definition of piracy has changed from age to age. It has also varied in different countries at the same period in history. All this ...
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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