A masterful narrative history

The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world throughout history, but our popular stereotype of pirates has been defined by one historical moment: the period from the 1660s to the 1730s, the so-called "golden age of piracy."

Familiar characters like Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, Bonny and Read, Henry Every, and Captain Kidd all feature here, but so too will the less well-known figures from the history of piracy, their crew-members, shipmates, and their confederates ashore; the men and women whose transatlantic lives were bound up with the rise and fall of piracy.

This is a masterful history of the lives of pirates during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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“A rollicking and fresh account of the Golden Age of Piracy! Blakemore has added an essential new work to the field of pirate history." —Dr. Rebecca Simon

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