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Outcasts of the Sea: Pirates and Piracy
"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
256 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1978
About the author
Edward Lucie-Smith
461 books32 followersJohn Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith, known as Edward Lucie-Smith, was 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 was a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space.
Edward Lucie-Smith died in July 2026, at the age of 93.
Information about Lucie-Smith's death from Wikipedia
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 was a curator of the Bermondsey Project Space.
Edward Lucie-Smith died in July 2026, at the age of 93.
Information about Lucie-Smith's death from Wikipedia
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March 31, 2022
An accurate but blandly written account of the history of pirates.
August 16, 2015
Opširna, mada pomalo senzacionalistički pisana povijest pirata i piratstva.
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