The Mammoth Book of Pirates

by Jon E. Lewis, Jon E. Lewis (Editor)

Overview

A rollicking tour of the history of the high seas with Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, 'Calico Jack' Rackham, Anne Bonney and other figures of maritime legend.





Includes Francis 'The Scourge of Spain' Drake's audacious night-time treasure raid on Nombre de Dios; Alexander Exquemelin's fly-on-the-wall account of the 'wicked order of pirates, or robbers of the sea'; the journal of William Dampier, found stashed in a hollow bamboo tube, and much more. Witness skulduggery and malice, terror and excitement -- a colourful and always entertaining collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780332710
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	08/04/2011
Series:	Mammoth Books , #384
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	272,974
File size:	917 KB

About the Author

JON E. LEWIS is an historian and author of numerous bestselling books on history and military history, including Voices from D-Day, Voices from the Holocaust, The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War and A Brief History of the First World War. He holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out and the Guardian. He lives in Herefordshire.