The Penguin Book of Pirates - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0143137514 ISBN 13 : 9780143137511

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2024

Synopsis

Real-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond

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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À propos de l'auteur

Katherine Howe is the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The House of Velvet and Glass. She is a lecturer in American Studies at Cornell University. She is also a direct descendant of three women accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, one who was hanged and two who survived. Her books have been published around the world in 23 languages to date.

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Contents
 
The Seventeenth Century and Before

• Francis Drake 
• Grace O’Malley 
• Jack Ward 
• Samuel Palache 
• William Jackson 
• Thomas Veal 
• Henry Morgan 
• Henry Mainwaring 
• Alexander Exquemelin 
• Henry Avery 
• William Kidd 
• Thomas Tew 

 
The Golden Age

• The proclamation pardoning pirates 
• Howell Davis 
• Christopher Condent 
• Edward “Ned” Low 
• Edward “Blackbeard” Teach 
• Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts 
• Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy 
• William Snelgrave 
• John Upton 
• Richard Luntly 
• Anne Bonny and Mary Reade 
• John Philips 
• Philip Ashton 
• William Fly 
• Fanny Campbell 
• Jose Gasper 

 
The Nineteenth Century

• First Barbary War 
• Zheng Yi Sao 
• Jean Laffite 
• Schooner Jane
• The Dover
• The Porpoise 
• The Alligator 
• The Belvidere 
• The Mary 
• The New Priscilla 
• The Friendship 
• The Mexican 
• La Amistad 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143137514
• ISBN 13: 9780143137511
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Howe Katherine
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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