This book offers true stories of bloodthirsty pirates and the courageous men trying to stop them during the Western Hemisphere's golden age of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
David F. Marley is a naval historian who has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America and Europe and currently resides in Canada.
Marley has compiled a new authoritative and must-have resource, one
that far surpasses the original edition. . . . this is an amazing
treasure trove of information for researchers, historians,
libraries, and pirate aficionados willing to part with those
precious pieces of eight.
*Pirates and Privateers*
This work, exhaustive in its coverage and extensive in its scope,
is recommended for Atlantic history and eighteenth-century studies
collections in academic libraries and for public libraries where
the topic is of interest.
*Booklist*
Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through
faculty/researchers; general readers.
*Choice*
Entertaining and scholarly, this work is a treasure for all
libraries and users of many stripes.
*Library Journal*
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