About this title: The Republic of Pirates features the 18th-century pirates Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and "Black Sam" Bellamy, both of whom rose from England's underclass to become wealthy, notorious, and enormously powerful. Along with their associates in the Bahamas-based "Flying Gang," Teach and Bellamy banded together to form a pirate cooperative, culminating ...
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Your search:Books»The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down(68 available copies)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780151013029ISBN:0151013020
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
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Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 2008-06-30
ISBN-13:9780156034623ISBN:015603462X
Description: New. Excellent Condition-Brand New! ! ! Never Been Read-Pages, Cover and Binding are Tight and Bright! ! ! Light shelf wear! ! This book is from the publisher's overstock, and may have a small black or red mark on one side of the page edges-otherwise excellent! ! ! Thanks for considering us, we look forward to the chance to serve you! ! ! read more
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 383 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Fascinating. I wanted to know why pirates have been so romanticized and this book helped explain it. For example, the author explains that the crew's mortality rates on slave ships was almost as high as that of the slaves themselves. Sailors were very often "pressed" or kidnapped into service. Captains often used severe corporal punishment for minor infractions. So, many sailors, when a pirate crew took over their ship would run off with them. When they joined the crew, they were entitled to an equal share of the loot--the captain (unlike in a privateer ship) would only have a small percentage more. Except in battle, the crew voted democratically in decision making. Although the pirates traded in captured slaves, freed blacks were usually treated as equals, entitled to equal shares of the take. With some exception, the captains were not cruel to captives but usually released them, often with a ship to travel with, once they had taken valuables. 9/09"
"A disappointing mix of historical evidence and the author's great fantasy that each of the great pirates were, in some way, bound to each other by fate. A decent read, if you are willing to bring your sieve and chuck out what obviously should have been left out."
"Very boring. Did not keep my attention enough for me to finish it which is very surprising because I dig history, particularly this period. There were some interesting tidbits in there but they were lost among the humdrum narrative."
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