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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,841 ratings — published 2007
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,576 ratings — published 1995
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 552,213 ratings — published 1882
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,221 ratings — published 2004
Pirate Latitudes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.52 — 57,122 ratings — published 2009
A General History of the Pyrates (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,823 ratings — published 1999
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,372 ratings — published 2009
Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean: The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.64 — 382 ratings — published 2011
On Stranger Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,494 ratings — published 1987
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,128 ratings — published 2018
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.93 — 248,367 ratings — published 2017
The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.94 — 180 ratings — published 2005
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,849 ratings — published 2020
The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.40 — 377 ratings — published
Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,968 ratings — published 2007
Djibouti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.07 — 3,632 ratings — published 2010
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,725 ratings — published 2002
Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.68 — 345 ratings — published 2020
The Buccaneers of America (Dover Maritime)
by (shelved 4 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.77 — 807 ratings — published 1678
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,431 ratings — published 2011
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,225 ratings — published 2022
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.46 — 388 ratings — published 2019
All the Stars and Teeth (All the Stars and Teeth, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.65 — 37,757 ratings — published 2020
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,918 ratings — published 2020
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.86 — 669 ratings — published 2006
Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.76 — 126 ratings — published 2009
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.23 — 1,713 ratings — published 2017
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.17 — 89 ratings — published 2015
Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 81 ratings — published 1995
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.82 — 214 ratings — published 2010
Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.87 — 167 ratings — published 2013
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,297 ratings — published 2004
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.05 — 358 ratings — published
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,286 ratings — published 2000
Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.62 — 299 ratings — published 2003
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.72 — 664 ratings — published 2007
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.56 — 348 ratings — published 1983
The Tapestry of Fate (Amina al-Sirafi, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.43 — 6,286 ratings — published 2026
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.24 — 88,044 ratings — published 2023
Saltblood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,831 ratings — published 2024
The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.78 — 284 ratings — published 2023
Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,456 ratings — published
The Unbinding of Mary Reade (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.42 — 788 ratings — published 2018
Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.25 — 16,107 ratings — published 2023
Vengeance of the Pirate Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.97 — 18,485 ratings — published 2023
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,951 ratings — published 2021
The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 770 ratings — published 2007
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.46 — 59 ratings — published 2021
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.01 — 71,143 ratings — published 2021
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea (The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,776 ratings — published 2020
“Far from being misanthropic loners with anger issues, most of these pirates had lives that were intimately intertwined with the communities from which they came, and to which they one day hoped to return to enjoy their spoils. They viewed piracy as a job, not a lifestyle.”
― Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
― Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
“The Pirate Code by Stewart Stafford
Highwaymen of the high seas,
Outlaws of the oceans deep,
Plundering the crown's gold,
They may hang us as we sleep.
Home is but a distant memory,
Friends are anyone we can find,
Turncoats walk the plank slowly,
Or are keelhauled with jellyfish in brine.
The Robin Hoods of seaweed spray,
We rob the rich to give to ourselves,
Growing fat on finest grog and food,
And make pieces of eight into twelve.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
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Highwaymen of the high seas,
Outlaws of the oceans deep,
Plundering the crown's gold,
They may hang us as we sleep.
Home is but a distant memory,
Friends are anyone we can find,
Turncoats walk the plank slowly,
Or are keelhauled with jellyfish in brine.
The Robin Hoods of seaweed spray,
We rob the rich to give to ourselves,
Growing fat on finest grog and food,
And make pieces of eight into twelve.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
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