General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Pirates
General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Pirates First published in 1724 following a marked increase in pirate attacks on the Spanish Main and the resultant Wapping…
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General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Pirates
First published in 1724 following a marked increase in pirate attacks on the Spanish Main and the resultant Wapping executions, Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of Pirates is the most famous, and most influential, book about pirates ever written. Without them there would have been no Peter Pan, Treasure Island or Captain Jack Sparrow. Famed for its vigorous prose and uncanny understanding of the pirates' way of life, Johnson's volumes became the forerunners of the real-life criminal biography genre and inspired the likes of Defoe's Moll Flanders and Fielding's Jonathan Wild.
The celebrated female pirates Mary Reed and Anne Bonny also owe their subsequent notoriety to Johnson's book. This new edition presents twenty action-packed biographies detailing the blood-thirsty escapades of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, William Avery and Bartholomew Roberts. Originally