Pirates in Their Own Words is a collection of original documents relating to the 'golden age' of piracy. Letters, testimonies, witness accounts and other primary source documents written by the pirates themselves, their victims, and the men who hunted them down.

The 'jolly roger' is probably the most iconic flag in the world. Nobody can see the skull and cross-bones without thinking 'pirates'. This carefully-researched book explores the history of the famous pirate flag, its many variants, and includes descriptions and illustrations of every 'jolly roger' recorded during the 'golden age' of piracy in the eighteenth century.

A documentary history of English pirates in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, detailing the lives of notorious pirates such as John Ward, Clinton Atkinson, and Henry Mainwaring. Edited and footnoted transcriptions of original sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts.

Three primary-source tracts relating to military archery in seventeenth century England. William Neade's Double-Armed Man, Gervase Markham's Art of Archerie, and an anonymous pamphlet promoting explosive fire-arrows. Edited together into one volume with an introduction exploring the use of the bow by English armies in the Anglo-French war (part of the Thirty Years' War) and the English Civil Wars.

Two seventeenth-century joke books: John Taylor's Wit and Mirth (1628), and Roberts Chamberlain's A Book of Bulls, transcribed and edited together into one volume.

Pirates in Their Own Words is a collection of original documents relating to the 'golden age' of piracy. Letters, testimonies, witness accounts and other primary source documents written by the pirates themselves, their victims, and the men who hunted them down.