The Pirates Own Book

Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers

Marine Research Society

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780486137513
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Travel
• Index: Technology & Engineering

In these delightfully melodramatic accounts, originally published in an extremely rare 1837 volume, you'll find true stories of the diabolical desperadoes who plundered ships on the high seas and murdered their passengers and crews. The stories — based on contemporary newspaper accounts, trial proceedings, and Admiralty records — describe in lurid detail the life, atrocities, and bloody death of the infamous Black Beard as well as the cold-blooded exploits of Jean Lafitte, Robert Kidd, Edward Low, Thomas White, Anne Bonney, Mary Read, and scores of other maritime marauders.
The first edition of The Pirates Own Book was published in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1837, and during the next 25 years it was followed by at least eight other editions. Today it is a rarity among collectors. Now available once again in this inexpensive edition, it will thrill lovers of drama on the high seas or any reader interested in the true-life adventures of the ruthless men and women who sailed under the black flag so long ago.

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Table of contents

• DOVER MARITIME BOOKS
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• PREFACE.
• PREFACE TO THIS EDITION.
• INTRODUCTION.
• Table of Contents
• THE DANISH AND NORMAN PIRATES
• ADVENTURES AND EXPLOITS OF CAPTAIN AVERY.
• THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF THE JOASSAMEE PIRATES OF THE PERSIAN GULF.
• THE BARBAROUS CONDUCT AND ROMANTIC DEATH OF THE JOASSAMEE CHIEF, RAHMAH-BEN-JABIR.
• THE LIFE OF LAFITTE, THE FAMOUS PIRATE OF THE GULF OF MEXICO.
• THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN ROBERTS.
• THE LIFE OF CHARLES GIBBS. - Containing an Account of his Atrocities committed in the West Indies.
• HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES, CAPTURE AND EXECUTION OF THE SPANISH PIRATES.
• THE LIFE OF BENITO DE SOTO - THE PIRATE OF THE MORNING STAR.
• THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN ROBERT KIDD
• THE BLOODY CAREER AND EXECUTION OF VINCENT BENAVIDES - A PIRATE ON THE WEST COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA.
• THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN DAVIS;
• AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF THE MALAY PIRATES OF THE INDIAN OCEAN,
• THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN CONDENT
• THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN EDWARD LOW.
• LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN EDWARD ENGLAND
• ACCOUNT OF THE LYNN PIRATES - And Thomas Veal, who was buried in his cave by the Great Earthquake.
• HISTORY OF THE LADRONE PIRATES;
• THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN LEWIS .
• THE LIFE, CAREER AND DEATH OF CAPTAIN THOMAS WHITE.
• THE LIFE, ATROCITIES, AND BLOODY DEATH OF BLACK BEARD.
• THE EXPLOITS, ARREST, AND EXECUTION OF CAPTAIN CHARLES VANE.
• THE WEST INDIA PIRATES.
• THE ADVENTURES AND EXECUTION OF CAPTAIN JOHN RACKAM.
• THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF ANNE BONNEY.
• THE ADVENTURES AND HEROISM OF MARY READ.
• THE ALGERINE PIRATES,
• THE ADVENTURES, TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF CAPTAIN GOW.
• PIRATE’S SONG.
• INDEX
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