The pirates

The most notorious marauders of the high seas, fabled in song and story, are chronicled in absolute fact by this classic account of the lives, crimes, and deaths of Captain Kidd, Captain Low, Blackbeard, and many another cutthroat buccaneer. Gathered from around the globe, and first written in the immediate wake of the actual events, these tales are as thrilling as any fiction -- yet all the mare powerful because they're true!