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The Pirates - A Who's Who Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates & Buccaneers (Paperback)
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The Pirates - A Who's Who Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates & Buccaneers (Paperback)
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Surely pirates, taking them in their broadest sense, are as much
entitled to a biographical dictionary of their own as are
politicians, clergymen, race-horses, or artists in ferro-concrete,
who all have their own "Who's Who"? This volume does not pretend to
be a history of piracy, but is simply an attempt to gather
together, from various sources, particulars of those redoubtable
pirates and buccaneers whose names have been handed down to us in a
desultory way. To write a whole history of piracy would be a great
undertaking, but a very interesting one. Piracy must have begun in
the far, dim ages, and perhaps when some naked savage, paddling
himself across a tropical river, met with another adventurer on a
better tree-trunk, or carrying a bigger bunch of bananas, the first
act of piracy was committed. Indeed, piracy must surely be the
third oldest profession in the world. Herein are contained brief
accounts of some of the most famous pirates and buccaneers who have
left their marks upon history. Their exploits with their attending
morals and motives were surely many and varied. Among their ranks
heroes and villains were no less uncommon than among those who
found themselves in other professions.
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