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The Pirates' Who's Who is a classic pirate reference book full of pirate lore by Philp Gosse that "provides the particulars of the lives, deaths and exploits of famous pirates and buccaneers."

To write a whole history of piracy would be a great undertaking, but a very interesting one. Piracy must have begun in the far, dim ages, and perhaps when some naked savage, paddling himself across a tropical river, met with another adventurer on a better tree-trunk, or carrying... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Surely pirates, taking them in their broadest sense, are as much entitled to a biographical dictionary of their own as are clergymen, race-horses, or artists in ferro-concrete, who all, I am assured, have their own "Who's Who"? Have not the medical men their Directory, the... Read Full Overview

This exhaustive maritime reference gives the particulars of hundreds of the brethren of the sea in biographical form. A must for any Pirate enthusiast or arm-chair swashbuckler Special introduction by Editor David W. Whitehead (Piratologist/Cryptoarchaeologist/Cryptozoologist),... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview