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The Pirates Own Book Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers Kindle Edition

by Charles Ellms (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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December 18, 2012
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Charles Ellms originally published this book in 1837 for the Marine Research Society of Salem, Massachusetts. This book has long been considered a hard-to-find rarity of Piratology. The death of Black Beard as well as the piratical exploits of Jean Lafitte, Robert (William) Kidd, Edward Low, Thomas White, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and scores of other Pirates. David W. Whitehead is the founder of CryptoQuest, an organization dedicated to the study of all things "hidden" (Fortean phenomena, the paranormal, lost civilizations, cryptozoology, etc.) He has personally led expeditions into Florida swamps and Islands to search for buried treasure and archaeological mysteries. He majored in Archaeology, studied Cryptozoology and is one of the world's first Cryptoarchaeologists. He has investigated the hidden secrets of the swamps and rivers of Florida, the jungles of Central America, deserts and tunnels of Peru and the crypts and castles of Europe.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AQN20MM
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 18, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 602 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages

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J. Gray

Very interesting

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2014

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This book is very interesting. Because it was written in the 1088s, the writing is a bit archaic, but that's part of the charm. It gives a valuable insight into many aspects of life in those days, including how ships were sailed, what life was like ashore, etc. Plus, it has many detailed accounts of pirate and privateer "careers" in that era.

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Jay Bower

Interesting summaries of real pirates

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2018

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Let me work backwards, and begin by stating the few things I did not like about the book. First, the author chose to skip around in the sequence of his narrative, so one chapter might take place in China during the 1600s, while the next chapter is of a pirate in the Caribbean in the mid-1800s, and the following chapter details pirates off Africa in the early 1700s. I would have preferred a chronological/geographical presentation, especially since some of the pirate narratives became intertwined stories as crew members left one ship to venture out on their own. This is all superficial, though, and I enjoyed the text itself.

The author wrote about numerous well-known, and several lesser-known, pirates. The most interesting to me, and one of the longest chapters, was about a woman who commanded a literal pirate fleet off the coast of China during the 1600s. I had no idea of her existence, or of pirate activity in that area at the time.

This book did not have space to cover in-depth any individual pirate, a shortcoming of any overview-type collection. What it did provide was a good background to serve as a starting point for any further research the reader may wish to engage.

This would be a good read for people interested in nautical history, pirates, or the historical eras between 1600-1850.

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John

A good history lesson.....

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014

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The cronicals were very detailed and after completing the book I had a pretty good idea of the way and to some degree the reason for what they did what they did. If you want to know all about pirates this I believe is a good place to start.

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2016

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Short history of pirates. Good short reading.

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2014

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Disjointed and hard to follow story lines - fragmented and not contiguous. Old prose not the problem. Simply not well organized or expressed. At times I thought that the narrator had fallen into a barrel of rum and couldn't find their way out.

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Hargreaves Tattersall

Great read.

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2018

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I love pirate books fiction and non-fiction. This is a great read.

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2014

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This book is ridiculous, it's a joke, I tried to read the first few pages, but gave up. I could not figure out what the story was supposed to be about. I haven't the slightest idea of what the author was trying to say. None of the storyline makes any sense. --- Don't waste your time......

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2013

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This book describes the way real pirates lived and died, based on eyewitness accounts and historical records. There is no romantic swashbuckling here. The truth is that these were just a lawless bunch of criminals. Even the ones whose names we still know today had "careers" lasting only about three years before they ended up swinging from the gallows. Only a scant handful ever lived to retire and reach middle age. These narratives are not just interesting - they also dispel the myths about pirate life. The only complaint I have is that the text is sometimes somewhat confusing due to the odd sentence structure. Commas and semi-colons pop up at random, occasionally making it necessary to re-read a passage in order to get the meaning. This is just a minor annoyance, though, in an otherwise informative book.