Jolly Roger

Jolly Roger"Highly entertaining and well documented." TheNew York Times While history has painted most pirates as "abominable brutes," capable of the worst cruelties and driven by insatiable greed, the author of this fascinating study insists that pirates have suffered more than their share of bad press, mainly from popularizing writers trying to sell books. He notes, for example, that Henry Morgan always carried privateering commissions signed by the governor

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Introduction by Ruth Bunzel

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