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The 30-year golden age of piracy stretched into the early 18th century. During that time, as this vividly written book by historian Matthew West shows, poverty and oppression prompted many men - and even a few women - to sea in search of treasure, adventure, and sometimes revenge.
The treasure taken in a single trip could net a captain many times the profit an average sailor might expect to gain over a lifetime. The Pirates provides an exciting glimpse into the characters, crimes, and legends created by the buccaneers.
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- Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
- De: Colin Woodard
- Narrado por: Lewis Grenville
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,279
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In the early 18th century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates - former sailors, indentured servants, and runaway slaves - this "Flying Gang" established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which servants were free, Blacks could be equal citizens, and leaders were chosen or deposed by a vote.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible is better
- De CaptainRavick en 01-19-16
De: Colin Woodard
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Under the Black Flag
- The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
- De: David Cordingly
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 357
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For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents and records to produce a most authoritative and definitive account of piracy's "Golden Age." As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lacks Nuance
- De Joel Langenfeld en 07-02-15
De: David Cordingly
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The Pirate Hunter
- De: Richard Zacks
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 18 h y 42 m
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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer. However, Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates. Across the oceans of the world, the pirate hunter, Kidd, pursued the pirate, Culliford. One man would hang in the harbor; the other would walk away with the treasure. The Pirate Hunter is both a masterpiece of historical detective work and a page-turner.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Aaaargh Matey, Listen to this tale!
- De Karen en 04-20-04
De: Richard Zacks
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Rebels at Sea
- Privateering in the American Revolution
- De: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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The heroic story of the founding of the US Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation's character. In Rebels at Sea, Eric Jay Dolin corrects that significant omission, and contends that privateers, as they were called, were in fact critical to the American victory. Privateers were privately owned vessels that were granted permission by the new government to seize British merchantmen and men of war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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If you can get over the narrator...
- De Toby Everett en 09-20-22
De: Eric Jay Dolin
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Give Me a Fast Ship
- The Continental Navy and America's Revolution at Sea
- De: Tim McGrath
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
- Duración: 19 h y 54 m
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America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution - or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord, England's King George sent hundreds of ships westward to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping. Colonists had no force to defend their coastline and waterways until John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. Meticulously researched and masterfully told, Give Me a Fast Ship is the definitive history of the American Navy during the Revolutionary War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I learned so much
- De William en 05-08-17
De: Tim McGrath
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Born to Be Hanged
- The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
- De: Keith Thomson
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 333
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The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than 300 daring, hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become a legend. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era—a story not given its full due until now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating tale of 17th Piracy in the Americas
- De Xmeromotu en 07-11-22
De: Keith Thomson
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To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth
- The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War
- De: Tom Clavin, Phil Keith
- Narrado por: Joe Knezevich
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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On June 19, 1864, just off the coast of France, one of the most dramatic naval battles in history took place. On a clear day with windswept skies, the dreaded Confederate raider Alabama faced the Union warship Kearsarge in an all-or-nothing fight to the finish, the outcome of which would effectively end the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas.
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3 out of 5 stars
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check this out from the library if you really want to read it
- De coffeedave en 03-14-25
De: Tom Clavin, y otros
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The Whydah
- A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
- De: Martin W. Sandler
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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For more than 200 years, the wreck of the Whydah (and the riches that went down with it) eluded treasure seekers, until the ship was finally found in 1984 by marine archaeologists. The artifacts brought up from the ocean floor are priceless, both in value and in the picture they reveal of life in that much-mythologized era, changing much of what we know about pirates.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must for any authentic pirate enthusiast!
- De The Wizzzard en 01-17-23
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John Paul Jones
- Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
- De: Evan Thomas
- Narrado por: Dan Cashman
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 206
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John Paul Jones is more than a great sea story. Jones is a character for the ages. John Adams called him the "most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American Navy." The renewed interest in the Founding Fathers reminds us of the great men who made this country, but John Paul Jones teaches us that it took fighters as well as thinkers, men driven by dreams of personal glory as well as high-minded principle to break free of the past and start a new world. Jones' spirit was classically American.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Swashbuckler or Saviour
- De Bruce en 03-16-04
De: Evan Thomas
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Empire of Blue Water
- Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe that Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades and brought it to its knees. This is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean. Henry Morgan, a 20-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean became legendary. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish empire on land and at sea determined the fates of kings and queens, and his victories helped shape the destiny of the New World.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Morbid Terrorists?
- De Jack en 11-11-08
De: Stephan Talty
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Jefferson's War
- America's First War on Terror, 1801-1805
- De: Joseph Wheelan
- Narrado por: Patrick Cullen
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 525
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Two centuries ago, without congressional or public debate, a president who is thought of today as peaceable, Thomas Jefferson, launched America's first war on foreign soil, a war against terror. The enemy was Muslim; the war was waged unconventionally, with commandos, native troops, and encrypted intelligence, and launched from foreign bases.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Great Read
- De Donald en 06-19-05
De: Joseph Wheelan
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
- The Forgotten War That Changed American History
- De: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
- Narrado por: Brian Kilmeade
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,870
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When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far beyond what the new country could afford.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting history - terrible narrator
- De CJF en 12-08-15
De: Brian Kilmeade, y otros
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Six Frigates
- De: Ian W. Toll
- Narrado por: Stephen Lang
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,417
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Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce against the Mediterranean pirates, or drain the treasury and provoke hostilities with the great powers? The founders, particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams, debated these questions fiercely and switched sides more than once.
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3 out of 5 stars
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BE ADVISED THIS BOOK IS ABRIDGED
- De George Carpenter III en 09-11-08
De: Ian W. Toll
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Wolf of the Deep
- Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama
- De: Stephen Fox
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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In July 1862, Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes took command of a secret new warship. At the helm of the Alabama, he became the most hated and feared man along the Union coast, as well as a Confederate legend. Now, with unparalleled authority, depth, and a vivid sense of the excitement and danger of the time, Stephen Fox describes Captain Semmes's remarkable wartime exploits.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wolf of the Deep
- De Sammi en 08-18-07
De: Stephen Fox
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Batavia's Graveyard
- The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- De: Mike Dash
- Narrado por: Guy Bethell
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perhaps the best book ever
- De Ray928 en 03-12-19
De: Mike Dash
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The War for All the Oceans
- From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
- De: Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 21 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 84
Roy Adkins, with his wife, Lesley, returns to the Napoleonic War in The War for All the Oceans, a gripping account of the naval struggle that lasted from 1798 to 1815, a period marked at the beginning by Napoleon's seizing power and at the end by the War of 1812. In this vivid and visceral account, Adkins draws on eyewitness records to portray not only the battles but also the details of a sailor's life: shipwrecks, press-gangs, prostitutes, spies, and prisoners of war.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good material, horrid narration
- De SC Visel en 01-03-08
De: Roy Adkins, y otros
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Blackbeard
- America's Most Notorious Pirate
- De: Angus Konstam
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 139
Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard. As unforgettable as his savage career was, much of Blackbeard's life has been shrouded in mystery - until now. Drawing on vivid descriptions of Blackbeard's attacks from his rare surviving victims, pirate expert Angus Konstam traces Blackbeard's career from its beginnings to his final defeat in a tremendous sea battle near his base at Ocracoke Island
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4 out of 5 stars
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It’s alright
- De B. Williams en 02-26-21
De: Angus Konstam
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- 11-26-17
Sort of a cliff notes survey of the "Golden Age"
A few interesting stories about pirates around Africa and India during the Golden age, but otherwise it sort of reads like a dis-organized Cliff Notes version of The Republic of Pirates, which I recommend as a vastly superior and far better-researched and detailed piece of work.
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