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| #1723561 in Books | 2005-04-01 | 2005-03-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.44 x1.10 x6.34l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Good, but dry.|By S. Potter|I enjoyed the information in this book, but I found it to be a dry read most of the time.
Earle does a good job covering the rise and reasons behind the three major eras of piracy in the Mediterannian and Altlantic seas. But the new part of this history for me was the account of European and, later, American responses to piracy. Generall||"Wonderfully detailed." ---"San Antonio Express-News""" "A well-researched effort on an extensive subject, this is highly recommended."---"Library Journal" "Fascinating...His scholarship is solid, and his telling of this complex story is lucid and well paced."
Investigating the fascination pirates hold over the popular imagination, Peter Earle takes the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoods sailing under the "banner of King Death" and contrasts it with the murderous reality of robbery, torture and death and the freedom of a short, violent life on the high seas. The book charts 250 years of piracy, from Cornwall to the Caribbean, from the 16th century to the hanging of the last pirate captain in Boston in 1835. Along the way, w...
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