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Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates

Author David Cordingly

Format Paperback

Publisher Random House Trade Paperbacks

Category Sea History

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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.

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David Cordingly

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  • Release Date: 2006-05-09
  • Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780812977226

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