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A General History of the Pirates

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The Preface
14:57
Introduction, part 1
37:42
Introduction, part 2
8:38
CHAPTER I Of Captain Avery, and his Crew
31:06
CHAPTER II Of Captain Martel, and his Crew
9:28
CHAPTER III Of Captain Teach alias Black-Beard
35:43
CHAPTER IV Of Major Stede Bonnet, and his Crew
37:20
CHAPTER V Of Captain Edward England, and his Crew
48:34
CHAPTER VI Of Captain Charles Vane, and his Crew
14:30
CHAPTER VII Of Captain John Rackam, and his Crew
10:20
The Life of Mary Read
14:52
The Life of Anne Bonny
13:05
CHAPTER VIII Of Captain Howel Davis, and his Crew (Part 1)
23:44
A Description of the Islands of St. Thome, Del Principe, and Annobono
30:59
CHAPTER VIII Of Captain Howel Davis, and his Crew (Part 2)
6:17
CHAPTER IX Of Captain Bartholomew Roberts, and his Crew (Part 1)
24:02
CHAPTER IX Of Captain Bartholomew Roberts, and his Crew (Part 2)
23:49
CHAPTER IX Of Captain Bartholomew Roberts, and his Crew (Part 3)
28:03
Captain Roberts and his crew, part 4
18:05
Captain Roberts and his Crew, part 5
32:27
The Tryals of the Pyrates part 1
29:11
the Tryals of the Pyrates part 2
24:21
the Tryals of the Pyrates part 3
29:55
CHAPTER X Of Captain Anstis, and his Crew
19:41
CHAPTER XI Of Captain Worley, and his Crew
7:20
CHAPTER XII Of Captain George Lowther, and his Crew
31:01
CHAPTER XIII Of Captain Edward Low, and his Crew, part 1
20:06
CHAPTER XIII, Captain Low part 2
24:14
CHAPTER XIV Of Captain John Evans, and his Crew
7:06
CHAPTER XV Of Captain John Phillips, and his Crew
25:01
CHAPTER XVI Of Captain Spriggs, and his Crew
12:36
An account of the pyracies and murders committed by Philip Roche
9:26
An Abstract of the Civil Law and Statute Law now in Force, in Relation to Pyracy
8:04

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First printed in London in 1724, this collection of pirate biographies did more than any other book to shape how the world pictures buccaneers. Its pages introduced buried treasure, the Jolly Roger, and the swaggering menace of figures such as Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, Calico Jack Rackham, and the female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read. The author hid behind the name Captain Charles Johnson, and his true identity has never been settled. Part reportage and part legend, the work blends real Atlantic and Caribbean raids with colorful invention, which is exactly why novelists from Stevenson onward mined it for generations. Free PDF and EPUB edition.

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Captain Charles Johnson

Captain Charles Johnson is a pseudonym, and the writer behind it remains unknown. The book was once attributed to Daniel Defoe, though scholars now largely reject that claim. Whoever he was, he produced the founding text of pirate lore and the source most later sea stories drew upon.

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