The Golden Age of
Pirates and Buccaneers
is a collections of true stories of these pirates and buccaneers: Francis Lololois (1630-1669); Henry Morgan; Pierre le Grand (mid 1600's-????); William Kidd (1645-1701); Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (1680-1718); Stede Bonnet (1688-1720); John "Calico Jack" Rackam (1682-1720); Mary Read (1685-????); Anne Bonny (1697-????); Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts (1687-1722); and, Portuguese Barthelemy (dates unknown).
The Golden Age of Piracy is considered late 1600's through early 1700's. While there were many pirates and buccaneers during this era, most have no biography available and/or were not ship or fleet captains.
The biographies of the above mention pirates and buccaneers are very interesting. Where possible in each chapter more than one source is included. Those chapters may be somewhat repetitive, but include some differences that reveal more or less biographical information. The biographies are representative of the original manuscript as closely as possible. The writing style is that of the era of each biographer. The reader will find various paragraph and sentence structure, words, word usage, spelling and punctuation.
