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Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend: An A-Z Encyclopedia (Paperback)

by Jan, PhD Rogozinski (Author) "ABBAS. TUANKU (Malayan pirate: South China Sea: active 1840s) A brother of the rajah of Achin in northern Borneo ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press (Oct 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 030680722X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0306807220
  • Product Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,236,986 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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}In more than a thousand entries this encyclopediaimpeccably researched, internationally focused, and extensively cross-referencedreveals the actual lives and exploits of pirates and the diverse worlds from which they sprang, from the Etruscan and Phoenician marauders off the coast of ancient Greece to the Chinese and Malay pirates of the 1870s. Pirates! encompasses: historical pirates like Madame Cheng I Sao, Captain William Kidd, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Edward "Blackbeard" Teach; fictional buccaneers like Anne Bonny, Captain Blood, and Long John Silver; every important and noteworthy novel, play, poem, ballad, opera, and movie portraying pirates; pirate slang, havens, types of ships, weapons, symbols, practices, and pleasures; a listing of the richest booty ever captured; over a hundred illustrations (with more than a dozen paintings by Howard Pyle); and a comprehensive bibliography. }
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good reference book, but an average history one., 17 Jun 1999
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This book is practical for references. But the author is often wrong. I found about a dozen fatal errors, and several minor ones. I have read many, many books of pirates history. If the author had truly read with care his masive bibliography, then he would not have made so many mistakes. I do not believe he did his homework well. Also, he does not gives any body of notes, so we the readers do not know where he took his data from, nor can we distinguish when is he using primary sources or when he is making things up. I recomend it only with reserves. For a better book, see David Cordingly, or go to the masters as Gosse.
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