Crimson Waters: True Tales of Adventure. Looting, Kidnapping, Torture, and Piracy on the High Seas

by Kraig Becker, Kraig Becker

A  New York Times  bestsellling author separates history from myth from the Pharaohs to Blackbeard and Captain Kidd to today. 

Soon after the first maritime trade routes became operational, seafaring bandits appeared to prey upon the cargo, crews, and ships of others.  Crimson Waters  traces the history of piracy around the globe, stretching back from its roots in 2500 BCE, through the Golden Age of Piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, and up to the modern-day pirates who still threaten boats along coastlines and on the open seas. 

This journey through history  
 

Crimson Waters  satisfies all the armchair swashbucklers who long for a sense of adventure and the history buffs looking to spruce up their knowledge of maritime exploits. 

 

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Pirates

296 pages, Hardcover

Published June 7, 2022

Reviews

[Fred Baerkircher · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very near the beginning I started thinking the tone seemed a little weird, so checked the author bios. And sure enough, these two have basically no credentials relevant to the subject. This is essentially just a series of short essays about pirates, intending more to be entertainment than informative, but not really succeeding in that, either.

[Denise · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the material is interesting enough, all these stories have been told elsewhere, better and in more detail. The research is at times a bit shoddy and the structure of the book (if one can call it that) a complete mess, with some passages unnecessarily repetitive.

[عبد الله القصير · Rating 2 out of 5]

لم استطع اكماله، الكتاب جاف ومربك بتنقله بين الشخصيات والازمان بشكلٍ شبه عشوائي.

[Jocelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative and good narration in the audiobook. Learned a good bit about the history of pirates through the ages.

[wally walter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not very good

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

My main takeaway from this book is that the Pirates of the Caribbean movies contain so many references to actual pirate history! And that Zheng Yi Sao seems very cool.