Under the Black Flag
The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
by David Cordingly
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appears in Pirate, History, and Nonfiction.
For this rousing, revisionist history, the former head of exhibitions at England's National Maritime Museum has combed original documents & records to produce a most authoritative & definitive account of piracy's Golden Age. As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. walking the plank is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is mor...
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appears in Pirate, History, and Nonfiction.
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