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Under the Black Flag:
The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly
Soft bound: 320 pages
Publisher: Harcourt Trade Publishers
1997
Though literature, films, and folklore have romanticized pirates
as gallant seaman who hunted for treasure in exotic locales,
David Cordingly, a former curator at the National Maritime Museum
in England, reveals the facts behind the legends of such outlaws
as Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Calico Jack.
Even stories about buried treasure are fictitious, he says, yet
still the myth remains. Though pirate captains were often sadistic
villains and crews endured barbarous tortures, were constantly
threatened with the possibility of death by hanging, drowning in a
storm, or surviving a shipwreck on a hostile coast, pirates are
still idealized. Cordingly examines why the myth of the romance of
piratehood endures and why so few lived out their days in luxury on
the riches they had plundered.
Book is clean and bright, having been gently used with some light wear to it's cover.
Order by ITEM #BKS-93-07
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