Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader

by Kevin Delaney

Book Overview

Dispelling the romanticized myths surrounding pirates, Pennell's edited collection provides a corrective history of bandits at sea

The romantic fiction of pirates as swashbuckling marauders terrorizing the high seas has long eclipsed historical fact. Bandits at Sea offers a long-overdue corrective to the mythology and the mystique which has plagued the study of pirates and served to deny them their rightful legitimacy as subjects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814766781
• ISBN13: 9780814766781
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"