Great Pirate Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781547276516)

He is undeniably a redoubtable historical figure. It is a curious fact that the commerce of the seas was cradled in the lap of buccaneering. The constant danger of the deeps in this form only made hardier mariners out of the merchant-adventurers, actually stimulating and strengthening maritime enterprise. Buccaneering-which is only a politer term for piracy-thus became the high romance of the seas during the great centuries of maritime adventure. It went hand in hand with discovery, -they were in fact almost inseparable. Most of the mighty mariners from the days of Leif the Discoverer, through those of the redoubtable Sir Francis Drake down to our own Paul Jones, answer to the roll-call.

Author: Joseph Lewis French
ISBN-10: 1547276517
ISBN-13: 9781547276516
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2017
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d