A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
by Daniel Defoe
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9780786706228,
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Basic Books,
1999
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Originally published in 1724, this instantaneous bestseller delivered a dramatic and detailed chronicle of robbery and murder on the high seas. The General History's vivid prose and graphic accounts not only were mainly responsible for the posthumous reputations of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but also have inspired fictional pirates, from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island to Errol Flynn's movies. The General History undebatably created the modern conception of pirates -- the Jolly Roger, marooning, and squawking parrots -- but it was also scrupulously researched. Its accounts were almost certainly based on interviews with captured pirates and trial testimony, and its convincing recreation of seamen's language adds the true flavor of ocean-going larceny. In these pages readers will encounter the female pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who both escaped execution because of pregnancy, and the rapaciously successful Captain Bartholomew Roberts, who looted hundreds of ships before his death on the high seas.
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