Publisher's Synopsis
The comprehensive history of the lifea nd crimes of pirates Blackbeard, Captain Kid, CAptain Misson, Mary Read, Anne Bonney, Captain Avery and many other notorious 17th Century pirates, detailing their philosphies and codes, voyages, battles, treasures, trials and bloody deaths. Here are the pioneers of liberty, and autocracy whose charters from a blueprint for subsequent generations of thieves, gunslingers, assassins, revolutionaries activists and hackers.