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Also by Katherine Howe:

The Penguin Book Of Pirates, May 2024
Paperback / e-Book
A True Account, December 2023
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The Penguin Book Of Witches, October 2014
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The House Of Velvet And Glass, April 2012
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The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane, June 2009
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The Penguin Book Of Pirates
Katherine Howe

Penguin Classics
May 2024
On Sale: April 30, 2024
400 pages
ISBN: 0143137514
EAN: 9780143137511
Kindle: 9780143137
Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography

A Penguin Classic

Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, The Penguin Book of Pirates takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the no-man’s-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists. Here, in a fascinating array of accounts that include trial transcripts, journalism, ship logs, and more, are the grit and patois of real maritime marauders like the infamous Blackbeard; the pirates who inspired Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean,Stede Bonnet in Max’s Our Flag Means Death, and the Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride; the astoundingly egalitarian multi-ethnic and multilingual crews that became enmeshed in historical horrors like the slave trade; and lesser-known but no less formidable women pirates, many of whom disguised themselves as men. By turns brutal, harrowing, and inspiring, these accounts of the “radically free” sailors who were citizens more of the oceangoing world than of any nation on land remind us of the glories and dangers of the open seas and the seductive appeal of communities forged in resistance.

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