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Pirate Book Recommendations
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 4/18/20 at 10:41 pm
I'm working my way through the Black Sails TV series right now and am really digging the pirate genre. Anyone have any good recommendations for pirate stories (fiction or non-fiction)? I have of course already read Treasure Island.
Posted on 4/19/20 at 12:37 am to aileron
For Fiction, “On Stranger Tides” is a classic.
For non-fiction, the most recent one I read was “Black Flag, Blue Waters”, which was pretty solid.
For non-fiction, the most recent one I read was “Black Flag, Blue Waters”, which was pretty solid.
Posted on 4/19/20 at 9:52 am to aileron
Friend,
There’s the fictional Journal of Jean Lafitte, which is fun. My favorite Lafitte book, and by extension, pirate book is William Davis’ The Pirates Lafitte . Apparently my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather fought with Lafitte at the Battle of New Orleans. We do not know if he was slain there or if he abandoned the family, leaving for another land.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
There’s the fictional Journal of Jean Lafitte, which is fun. My favorite Lafitte book, and by extension, pirate book is William Davis’ The Pirates Lafitte . Apparently my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather fought with Lafitte at the Battle of New Orleans. We do not know if he was slain there or if he abandoned the family, leaving for another land.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 4/19/20 at 12:50 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:you really need to stop with the "friend" bs
TulaneLSU
Posted on 4/19/20 at 4:08 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Sport,
I will keep that in mind.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
I will keep that in mind.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 4/19/20 at 4:45 pm to aileron
Check out Benerson Little's books. He has several non-fiction books on piracy. He was a historical consultant on Black Sails as a matter of fact.
Oh, and he was my fencing coach too.
Oh, and he was my fencing coach too.
This post was edited on 4/19/20 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 4/19/20 at 11:29 pm to aileron
A General History of the Pyrates, written in 1724 by Charles Johnston, which most scholars believe was a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe. It's where most of our popular conceptions of pirates come from. In the public domain and many sites have it available to download or read online.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 8:21 am to aileron
The second Gentlemen Bastards book is a pirate's tale. The caveat being that you have to read the 1st book, which is not a pirate's tale.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 9:02 am to aileron
Posted on 4/20/20 at 8:42 pm to AllbyMyRelf
quote:
May I recommend Swing Your Sword by Coach Mike “the Pirate” Leach?
Did you like the part where he peed on a dog's face?
Posted on 4/26/20 at 1:06 pm to aileron
Pirate latitudes by Michael Crichton.
I enjoyed it..
I enjoyed it..
Posted on 4/26/20 at 9:17 pm to aileron
Caribbee / Thomas Hoover
May go back and re-read this one.
quote:GoodReads synopsis.
“This action-crammed, historically factual novel . . . is a rousing read, ably researched by Hoover” Publishers Weekly
Barbados and Jamaica 1648. The lush and deadly Caribbean paradise, domain of rebels and slaveholders, of bawds and buccaneers. Colonists fight a wishful war for freedom against England. CARIBBEE is the untold story of the first American revolution, as English colonists pen a Declaration of Defiance ("liberty" or "death") against Parliament and fight a full-scale war for freedom against an English fleet -- with cannon, militia, many lives lost -- over a century before 1776.
The powerful story line, based on actual events, also puts the reader in the midst of the first major English slave auction in the Americas, and the first slave revolt. We see how plantation slavery was introduced into the English colonies, setting a cruel model for North America a few decades later, and we experience what it was like to be a West African ripped from a rich culture and forced to slave in the fields of the New World.
We also see the unleashed greed of the early Puritans, who burned unruly slaves alive, a far different truth from that presented in sanitized history books.
Finally, we witness how slavery contributed to the failure of the first American revolution, as well as to the destruction of England's hope for a vast New World empire. We also are present at the birth of the buccaneers, one-time cattle hunters who banded together to revenge a bloody Spanish attack on their home, and soon became the most feared marauders in the New World. The story is mythic in scope, with the main participants being classic American archetypes -- a retelling of the great American quest for freedom and honor. The major characters are based on real individuals, men and women who came West to the New World to seek fortune and personal dignity.
May go back and re-read this one.
This post was edited on 4/26/20 at 9:18 pm
Posted on 4/28/20 at 5:35 pm to aileron
Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson. Non fiction story about some treasure hunters searching for pirate ships. Gives a great overall history of pirates and the story of the ship and captain they're searching for.
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