scientific book about piracy ?

[Tom_Restorer]

Is someone out there who can tell me the best 3 scientific books about piracy (mainly caribbean) ?

Many thanks!!

 

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[TRG]

Quest for Blackbeard : the true story of Edward Thache and his world

Pillaging the Empire: Global Piracy on the High Seas, 1500-1750
By Kris Lane

Raiders and Rebels: A History of the Golden Age of Piracy
By Frank Sherry

 

[Rüdiger]

Time-Life Bücher "Die Piraten"

zB. hier https://www.amazon.de/Die-Piraten-Time-Life-B%C3%BCcher-Reihe-Seefahrer/dp/B0028ANF6Q

mvh
Rüdiger

 

[MPH200]

A General History Of The Pyrates - Daniel Defoe

Written in 1724 so it was present day at that time.

A General History of the Pyrates: by Daniel Defoe - Free Ebook

 

[ropesfish]

By scientific I take it that you mean "scholarly".
Here are a few, including Daniel Defoe's account.

Benerson Little "The Sea Rover's Practice" ( Mine came complete with cardboard dagger bookmark)
Neil Rennie’s "Treasure Neverland"
David Cordingly's "Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean" about Woodes Rogers
Joel Ruth recommended the book on Dampier...it is good -A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Life of William Dampier: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer – April 5, 2005
There are several more listed on this link that I happened to find in my faorites:
https://csphistorical.com/2015/06/28/recommend-books-on-pirate-history/

One I have never really wanted to read: "Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean 1st Revised Editionby B. R. Burg (Author)"
and even more unsettling is that on Amazon, the above and the following are listed as being "frequently bought together". I have some concerns that either book is frequently bought at all...
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity -by Hans Turley
(((WTH is up with that?? Any port in a storm/desert?)))

 

[Tom_Restorer]

This is great!

I thank you guys so much!!

@TRG: I try to get this books!
@Rüdiger: Saw this many times on Ebay but thought it is just an other common "Pirate book". Will buy it immediatly!
@MPH200: EXACTLY what I am looking for! Original sources of this time were I can check some thinks (May include descriptions of real pirate flags)

Thank you all!!

 

[Tom_Restorer]

@ropesfish:
Thank you! I will try to get them too!
I think I understand what you mean.
When I saw this fantastic serie "black sails", my first thought was "WHY they HAVE TO make a gay out of the fictive figure of captain Flint...
I think this gender freaks running completly NUTS now! Ok.... no more about it or my blood starts cooking again and it could be I grab my cutlass and blunderbass and ran amok just before I have read all this new books

 

[ARC]

I could list all night. heh

I will throw a few favorites at ya though...

 

[ARC]

That one is from 1935 and a def fav.

 

[ARC]

Not only a great book... but one of my fav guys...

 

[ARC]

 

[Tom_Restorer]

That one is from 1935 and a def fav.

so it is hard to get I guess.

 

[ARC]

Lots of em are hard to get... but shop ebay and rare bookshops.

Here is one I think from around the 90's that is really good and still in print as far as I know,.. heck I may even have 2 copies of it...

"Under The Black Flag".

Letme see if I can find a pic of it.

 

[ARC]

Lots of em are hard to get... but shop ebay and rare bookshops.

Here is one I think from around the 90's that is really good and still in print as far as I know,.. heck I may even have 2 copies of it...

"Under The Black Flag".

Letme see if I can find a pic of it.

 

[ARC]

I know the Howard pyle book... for the reg version was going for a couple to a few hundred.

Rare version command more.

 

[ARC]

This could actually be a really good thread.

Thee are SO many books on piracy / pirates.

I have owned / own .... ummmm Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh.

One word...

Arrrrrgggg. :P

(I know... debatable "word")

 

[ARC]

Last post for now...

Here is the Black Flag book... should be 20 bucks or less... great book.

 

[ARC]

Tom...

I forgot... I just finally found the site... been awhile... but I think this site will be your answer all... and geared directly to your question and filled with great books...

Bookmark this one.

https://csphistorical.com/2015/06/28/recommend-books-on-pirate-history/

 

[enrada]

My 2 cents
If you only want to read them for now, I would suggest you go to "books google" and there is a good chance that you will find them and be able to read them on your computer especially if they are old and out of print. I have read a number of books first there and thinnest out to find a copy after I determined whether it was something I wanted.
I recently read a book on "books google" about an 1835 shipwreck that is close to where I am looking for another wreck and came across some valuable info in that book. Can't find the book for sale.

 

[TRG]

Tom...

I forgot... I just finally found the site... been awhile... but I think this site will be your answer all... and geared directly to your question and filled with great books...

Bookmark this one.

https://csphistorical.com/2015/06/28/recommend-books-on-pirate-history/

Very nice review site AARC, thanks digging this treasure up and posting the link. As 2015 is already three years ago (!?!) perhaps Mr Fictum can be persuaded to update it. The books by Little, Earle, and McDonald look quite interesting. Peter Earle wrote the interesting to read and well researched book on the treasure of the Concepcion.