Under the Black Flag: The Romance And the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- ISBN-10
- 081297722X
- ISBN-13
- 9780812977226
- Series
- Under the Black Flag
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Random House Incorporated
- Author
- David Cordingly
Description
A revisionist history of the golden age of piracy draws on original archive records to provide a realistic study of pirates and their lives that refutes many of the myths about the era.
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- 2015-09-29
- 256 pages
- Ebook
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- 2003-10-01
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Mariner Books
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