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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 — 12,375 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 — 10,379 ratings — published 1995
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,195 ratings — published 2004
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 543,468 ratings — published 1882
A General History of the Pyrates (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,785 ratings — published 1999
Pirate Latitudes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.52 — 55,702 ratings — published 2009
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,355 ratings — published 2009
Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean: The Adventurous Life of Captain Woodes Rogers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.63 — 370 ratings — published 2011
Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,913 ratings — published 2018
The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.94 — 179 ratings — published 2005
On Stranger Tides (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.81 — 11,185 ratings — published 1987
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 3.89 — 4,650 ratings — published 2020
The Golden Age of Piracy: The Truth Behind Pirate Myths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.39 — 365 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 — 3,900 ratings — published 2007
Djibouti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.07 — 3,552 ratings — published 2010
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,696 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 3.67 — 340 ratings — published 2020
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.93 — 241,958 ratings — published 2017
The Buccaneers of America (Dover Maritime)
by (shelved 4 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.77 — 796 ratings — published 1678
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,411 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 — 3,049 ratings — published 2022
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.45 — 365 ratings — published 2019
All the Stars and Teeth (All the Stars and Teeth, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.65 — 37,141 ratings — published 2020
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.00 — 116,735 ratings — published 2020
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.87 — 649 ratings — published 2006
Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.77 — 122 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 — 1,681 ratings — published 2017
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.16 — 87 ratings — published 2015
Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.85 — 78 ratings — published 1995
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.83 — 209 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 — 165 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 — 1,283 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 — 354 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 — 1,248 ratings — published 2000
Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.62 — 296 ratings — published 2003
The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.72 — 662 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 3.57 — 345 ratings — published 1983
Saltblood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,483 ratings — published 2024
The Pirates’ Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.81 — 250 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 — 1,424 ratings — published
The Unbinding of Mary Reade (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.43 — 781 ratings — published 2018
Hunt on Dark Waters (Crimson Sails, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.25 — 15,289 ratings — published 2023
Vengeance of the Pirate Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,991 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 — 1,840 ratings — published 2021
Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.46 — 57 ratings — published 2021
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.01 — 69,202 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 — 12,483 ratings — published 2020
Sea of Ruin (Sea of Ruin, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,465 ratings — published 2020
Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.25 — 160,950 ratings — published 2007
Daughter of the Siren Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as piracy)
avg rating 4.05 — 138,060 ratings — published 2018
“The last week hadn’t been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just to find that the cargo of electronics he was to ship to Beowulf had been taken by another freighter for a lower fee. It took him until Wednesday before he found another cargo – which had to reach Earth by Saturday. The last straw was when his crew mutinied a day out of the Hermes system and demanded a pay increase. The union tended to call that sort of thing “collective bargaining”, not actually mutiny, but hey – the results are the same. He tended to favor the term “piracy”, but this wasn’t the high seas and out here, there were real pirates to worry about. His former crew had also wanted more time off and a better cook – at least one who knew how which end of a frying pan to hold. He was unable to comply, and so was forced to stop at Beowulf anyway. That was the last time he saw them. Fortunately for him, Weaver, Fuller and Jang opted to stay with him. Whether it was out of loyalty, or perhaps just convenience, he never knew.”
― Blachart
― Blachart
“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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