The Gigantic Book of Pirate StoriesStephen Brennan Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2007 M10 17 - 800 pages Anyone who loves a good story full of excitement, adventure, thrills, and laughs will find this massive collection (more than 800 pages!) irresistible. Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates, and their rum-drunk exploits and high-seas violence never fail to delight. Compiled here are more than 100 of the very best pirate yarns ever created on history’s most debaucherous scalawags. The stories, songs, and verses include writing by Daniel Defoe, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and many more. This is 800 pages of true treasure! Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. |
Contents
Pirates and Piracy | 3 |
Piracy in the Ancient World | 11 |
Caesar and the Pirates | 27 |
The Danish and Norman Pirates | 29 |
Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby 1735 | 37 |
The Fight Between the Dorrill and the Moca | 45 |
The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers | 51 |
The Remarkable History of the Joassamee Pirates of the Persian Gulf | 65 |
Jaddi the Malay Pirate | 387 |
A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates | 391 |
Captain Gow of the Orkneys | 425 |
A Crew of the Bloody Forties | 435 |
Kings Evidence Against a Pirate | 449 |
The Life of Lafitte | 453 |
BarbarossaKing of the Corsairs | 469 |
The Corsair | 481 |
Pirates at Panama | 79 |
Autobiography | 91 |
The Terrible Ladrones | 95 |
Authentic History of the Malay Pirates of the Indian Ocean | 111 |
The Pirates of Malabar | 123 |
The Ways of the Buccaneers | 145 |
The Female Captive | 149 |
The Last of the North Atlantic Pirates | 161 |
The Barbarous Conduct and Romantic Death of the Joassamee Chief RahmahbenJabir | 169 |
A Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West Indies | 173 |
A Narrative | 201 |
The Scourge of the Eastern Seas | 227 |
Cruising After Pirates | 239 |
Cruising for Pirates and What We Caught | 249 |
An Indictment for Piracy 1812 | 265 |
The Riff Coast Pirates | 285 |
Pirates and CoastGuards | 291 |
Captain Singleton | 301 |
Captain Hook | 333 |
The Adventures and Execution of Captain John Rackam | 347 |
MutinyCaptain Howel Davis and His Crew | 351 |
Captain Charles Vane | 363 |
The Life of Captain Lewis | 369 |
Tom Sawyer Pirate King | 375 |
Anne Bonney and Mary Read | 381 |
Shakespeare on Pirates | 541 |
The Pirates Song | 545 |
The Buccaneer | 547 |
The Pirate Song | 549 |
The Rivals | 553 |
The Song of Captain Kidd | 555 |
The Tarry Buccaneer | 557 |
The Articles of Pirate Law | 559 |
The Pirates Parody | 563 |
Last Words and Other Pirate Quotations | 567 |
With the Buccaneers | 575 |
The Daughter of the Great Mogul | 591 |
Cleveland | 597 |
Captain Scarfield | 609 |
The Attack | 625 |
The Malay Proas | 631 |
Blueskin the Pirate | 637 |
The Fleet of Captain Morgan | 663 |
The Old Buccaneer | 673 |
Captain Brown | 695 |
The Ghost of Captain Brand | 725 |
Captain Blood | 751 |
The Pyrates Attack | 773 |
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