Outcasts of the Sea: Pirates and Piracy

by Edward Lucie-Smith

"Piracy is as old as seamanship. No sooner did men take to the seas, than other men took to attacking and robbing them. In "Outcasts of the Sea", historian/author Edward Lucie-Smith describes the lives and times of some of the most treacherous pirates who ever sailed the oceans, in a fascinating look at one of the most intriguing chapters in all of nautical history." From Easton Press Collector's Notes

Genres: History, Pirates

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith, known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is an English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster.

Lucie-Smith was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moving to the United Kingdom in 1946. He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, and, after a little time in Paris, he read History at Merton College, Oxford from 1951 to 1954.

After serving in the Royal Air Force as an Education Officer and working as a copywriter, he became a full-time writer (as well as anthologist and photographer). He succeeded Philip Hobsbaum in organising The Group, a London-centred poets' group.

At the beginning of the 1980s he conducted several series of interviews, Conversations with Artists, for BBC Radio 3. He is also a regular contributor to The London Magazine, in which he writes art reviews. A prolific writer, he has written more than one hundred books in total on a variety of subjects, chiefly art history as well as biographies and poetry.

In addition he has curated a number of art exhibitions, including three Peter Moores projects at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; the New British Painting (1988–90) and two retrospectives at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He is a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space.

Reviews

[Lucky Tuck · Rating 2 out of 5]

An accurate but blandly written account of the history of pirates.

[Marijan Šiško · Rating 4 out of 5]

Opširna, mada pomalo senzacionalistički pisana povijest pirata i piratstva.