On the Account in the Golden Age: Piracy and the Americas, 1670-1726

by Joseph Gibbs

Piracy along American coastlines and in the Caribbean in the late 1600s and early 1700s is often seen today through a colourful set of modern media archetypes. The reality, however, was usually more ugly and frequently lethal. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to original memoirs, monographs, newspaper articles, and trial records to present a stark picture of piracy in the era of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Ann Bonny and Mary Read...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845196171
• ISBN13: 9781845196172
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.5"