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A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Pirates (Hardcover)
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A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Pirates (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R565
Discovery Miles 5 650
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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.
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. Without them
there would have been no Peter Pan, Treasure Island or Captain Jack
Sparrow. This new edition presents twenty action-packed biographies
detailing the blood-thirsty escapades of Blackbeard, Captain Kidd,
William Avery and Bartholomew Roberts. The celebrated female
pirates Mary Reed and Anne Bonny also owe their subsequent
notoriety to Johnson's book. Originally published in folio size
complete with fine copper engravings, this new edition not only
includes the very best of the original decorative features but also
presents a series of related illustrations, adverts, playbills and
portraits from the British Library.
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