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Great Pirate Stories

by Joseph Lewis French

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1922
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Read by Patrick McHaffie, Tysto, James Christopher and others · 8 h 46 min · 20 parts

  1. 00 - Forward

    3:33

  2. 01 - The Piccaroon

    36:54

  3. 02 - The Capture of Panama

    46:00

  4. 03 - The Malay Proas

    14:26

  5. 04 - The Wonderful Fight of the Exchange of Bristol with the Pirates of Algiers

    52:54

  6. 05 - The Daughter of the Great Mogul

    12:23

  7. 06 - Barbarossa - King of the Corsairs

    26:33

  8. 07 - Morgan at Puerto Bello

    15:58

  9. 08 - The Ways of the Buccaneers

    9:38

  10. 09 - A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates, Part 1

    39:28

  11. 10 - A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates, Part 2

    29:42

  12. 11 - A True Account of Three Notorious Pirates, Part 3

    38:04

  13. 12 - Narrative of the Capture of the Ship Derby

    24:02

  14. 13 - Francis Lolonois the Slave Who Became a Pirate King

    40:50

  15. 14 - The Fight between the Dorrill and the Moca

    16:02

  16. 15 - Jaddi the Malay Pirate

    10:42

  17. 16 - The Terrible Ladrones

    40:52

  18. 17 - The Female Captive

    30:55

  19. 18 - The Passing of Mogul Mackenzie

    25:57

  20. 19 - The Last of the Sea-Rovers

    11:55

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Joseph Lewis French gathered this anthology of sea robbery in 1922, drawing on old chronicles, histories and novels. His foreword argues that the pirate, for all his crimes, became the most colourful figure in the lore of the sea, and that the commerce of the oceans grew up alongside buccaneering.

The selections range from Michael Scott's Tom Cringle's Log and James Fenimore Cooper on Malay proas to John Esquemeling's accounts of Henry Morgan at Panama and Puerto Bello. Samuel Purchas describes a Bristol ship fighting the corsairs of Algiers, Daniel Defoe contributes a tale of the Great Mogul's daughter, and a life of Barbarossa follows the corsair king of the Mediterranean. Later pages trace Captain Kidd from Plymouth to Madagascar and the Red Sea, where a man sent out to take pirates decided to become one.

Some pieces are eyewitness history and some are fiction, and the cruelty of the buccaneers is told plainly.

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Book facts

First published
1922
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
159
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Patrick McHaffie, Tysto, James Christopher and others