Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgments. A Date with History. 1 The Pirate Apprentice. 2 A Pirate's Life. 3 The Scourge of the Caribbean. 4 Mixing with the Wrong Crowd. 5 The Devil Off Charles Town. 6 A Cutthroat Business. 7 The Lord of the Outer Banks. 8 Trouble in the Colonies. 9 The Last Battle. 10 The Blackbeard Legacy. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

Angus Konstam is a widely published author who has written several books on piracy, including The History of Pirates. A former naval officer and museum professional, he worked as a curator of weapons in the Tower of London and as the chief curator in the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Florida, before becoming a full-time historian and writer. An expert on weapons, shipwrecks, and piracy, he has advised several underwater archaeological groups (including the team working on Blackbeard's sunken flagship), and appears regularly on both the Discovery and the History channels. He now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Reviews

"...the fearsome role model for a new breed of screen pirates..." (The Scotsman, July 2006) "...real pirate of the Caribbean..." (The Daily Mirror, July 2006)