Pirates And Piracy

Stirring true tales of real, high-seas treachery abound in this compulsively readable narrative of corsairs, freebooters, and privateers. From the Norsemen and the pirates of the Levant and the China Seas, to Edward Teach (Blackbeard), Captain Kidd, and Henry Morgan, these stories of men who took to pirating range far across time and place. 16 illustrations.