[Gutenberg 40580] • A General History of the Pyrates: / from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time
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- Authors
- Defoe, Daniel
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Tags
- adventure , biography , history , pirates -- early works to 1800 , classics
- ISBN
- 9780486404882
- Date
- 1724-01-18T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.22 MB
- Lang
- en
Immensely readable history by the author of *Robinson Crusoe* incorporates the author's celebrated flair for journalistic detail, and represents the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century. Defoe recounts the daring and bloody deeds of such outlaws as Edward Teach (alias Blackbeard), Captain Kidd, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, many others.