The paperback edition of the bestselling account of the golden age of piracy by one of the world's leading naval historians. Using previously undiscovered material from British Admiralty records, Peter Earle charts 250 years of piracy, from Cornwall to the Caribbean, from the sixteenth century to th[...]
Presents the history of the English merchant seaman in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - a period during which England rose to dominance in world commence and became the greatest naval power in the world. This work explores various aspects of the sailor's life: conditions of service, wealth[...]