"The Pirates Own Book" by Charles Ellms takes some getting used to due to the nineteenth-century writing style, but it's full of interesting characters and small historical details that are going to be the delight of anyone passionate about maritime history and/or piracy.

What makes this book interesting is both style as it was written in 1837 and it was closer to contemporary at the time. True narrative about many pirates. Really opened up my knowledge about how truly despicable this batch of pirates were. Very educational.

A compilation of contemporaneous stories about pirates, which was compiled in the early 1800s. It is a very, and I want to stress very, general overview on pirate lives. It sounded to me like a good compilation of stories when I received the book however; it seemed to be information obtained for a c

In you want real stories and biographies of pirates this book could be for you. Although it was written in the early 1800's so the language takes getting used to. There are graphic accounts of real piracy- things got so bad around the world, the United States formed the Marine Corps specifically to

At first, the old timey writing style and jargon was kinda bugging me. Then I realized that the book was originally released in 1837. So upon learning that the author wasn't trying to SOUND old timey, but actually WAS old timey, it didn't bother me as much.(For some reason)
The stories were fairly e

This collection of biographical tales dates originally to the first half of the nineteenth century. They cover a broad spectrum from Arabian plunderers to Barbary corsairs to the more familiar Atlantic & Caribbean buccaneers. The writing is quite dense, reading more like an encyclopedic entry than t

A rather long (469 pages) and slow to read book about various pirates through history. It took me nearly three months to finish. I found it very hard to read, and very uninteresting, mostly. But, some parts WERE interesting. I spent a lot of time looking at maps of the Lynn Massachusetts area to see