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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This was such an interesting read. Pirates have always been fascinating, but this book really helped to differentiate between the fact and the fiction surrounding these mythologized characters of history. I highly recommend it as a read. ( ) This book takes myths about pirates and piracy and debunks them one by one. It limits itself with piracy by Europeans in 1650-1725 primarily in the Caribbean. The book is quite interesting, rich in details, with large bibliography and massive footnotes. Sometimes it goes too greatly into the details like discussing which fencing techniques and more specifically feints and hits could have been used by dueling pirates and the like. It cites a lot of fiction and film and show where they err. The [non-exhaustive] list of myths: - Pirates usually used black flags with skull and bones - They used galleons as their ships and hunted galleons - They often fought and boarded ships - Their primary weapon is a cutlass - They primarily hunted in the open ocean - They were rebels - They fought slavers - There was a pirate kingdom - There were female pirate captains - There were non-white pirate captains - There were pirate treasures Most of these things had a grain of truth but were exaggerated out of proportion. An interesting read for all the lovers of pirate fiction. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
For thousands of years, pirates have terrorized the ocean voyager and the coastal inhabitant, plundered ship and shore, and wrought havoc on the lives and livelihoods of rich and poor alike. Around these desperate men has grown a body of myths and legends--fascinating tales that today strongly influence our notions of pirates and piracy. Most of these myths derive from the pirates of the "Golden Age," from roughly 1655 to 1725. This was the age of the Spanish Main, of Henry Morgan and Blackbeard, of Bartholomew Sharp and Bartholomew Roberts. The history of pirate myth is rich in action, at sea and ashore. However, the truth is far more interesting. In The Golden Age of Piracy, expert pirate historian Benerson Little debunks more than a dozen pirate myths that derive from this era--from the flying of the Jolly Roger to the burying of treasure, from walking the plank to the staging of epic sea battles--and shows that the truth is far more fascinating and disturbing than the romanticized legends. Among Little's revelations are that pirates of the Golden Age never made their captives walk the plank and that they, instead, were subject to horrendous torture, such as being burned or hung by their arms. Likewise, epic sea battles involving pirates were fairly rare because most prey surrendered immediately. The stories are real and are drawn heavily from primary sources. Complementing them are colorful images of flags, ships, and buccaneers based on eyewitness accounts. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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