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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF PIRATES - KATHERINE HOWE KA...

Real-life accounts of the world's most notorious pirates-both men and women  from the Golden
Age of Piracy and beyond-compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account:
Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates  Written by Herself A Penguin Classic Spanning
three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles  and compiled by a direct descendant of a
sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century  The Penguin Book of Pirates
takes us behind the eye patches  the peg legs  and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger
and into the no-man's-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists. Here  in a
fascinating array of accounts that include trial transcripts  journalism  ship logs  and more 
are the grit and patois of real maritime marauders like the infamous Blackbeard  the pirates
who inspired Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean  Stede Bonnet in Max's Our Flag Means
Death  and the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride  the astoundingly egalitarian
multi-ethnic and multilingual crews that became enmeshed in historical horrors like the slave
trade  and lesser-known but no less formidable women pirates  many of whom disguised themselves
as men. By turns brutal  harrowing  and inspiring  these accounts of the 'radically free'
sailors who were citizens more of the oceangoing world than of any nation on land remind us of
the glories and dangers of the open seas and the seductive appeal of communities forged in
resistance--

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