Pirates: The Golden Age of Piracy: A History From Beginning to End

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Pros

This is a realistic look at pirating and not the glamorized view we have gotten from the movies. The book goes over piracy from the roman empire to modern day somalian pirates.

Good, quick overview of the history of pirates. Shame more wasn't known about the barbary pirates. The ancient world saw one of the most famous men of all time fall victim to pirate attack, this need a pirate attack.

Elizabeth garrett's book is about anne bonny and mary read. These books are great springboards for further research. This book is filled with a lot of information for being so small.

Cons

This should be labelled a pamphlet, not a book. The narrative is repetitive and superficial overall. Some famous characters are represented merely by mention of their names - hardly a deep dive.

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Quality

This book did a nice job of contrasting the movie version of piracy with the murder and enslaving practiced by most pirates.

Timelines of piracy and slave trading are very interesting.

Privateers with the promise of government sanction and enemy prizes set to their work with alacrity.

The pirates would ambush the pilgrims along with the merchants of the east india company off the coasts of malabar, coromandel,... Read More

Price

Asking for a ransom was routine and the running price was (in today’s money) around $600,000.

Shipping

In order to protect english commercial interests, she instituted privateering, which commissioned privately owned vessels with ... Read More

The criminals who sabotaged english shipping were heroes when they attacked england’s foes.

The english colony at roanoke, virginia was a base for attacks on spanish shipping.

Competitiveness

I enjoyed reading this as it gave a substantive review of the history of piracy in the world.

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This product had a total of 393 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 2 2022.