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    The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

    By Colin Woodard

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    Here’s the true story of the British Royal Navy’s struggle with the greatest pirate gang of all time. Drawing on archives in Great Britain and the United States, award-winning journalist and author Colin Woodard separates fact from fiction, revealing the real motivations and struggles of Blackbeard, Black Sam Bellamy, Calico Jack Rackham, and more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Word City
    Release dateMar 12, 2014
    ISBN9781612300535
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    The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
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    Colin Woodard

    Colin Woodard, an award-winning author and journalist, is State & National Affairs Writer for The Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, and a longtime correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His work has appeared in The Economist, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Smithsonian, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Bloomberg View, Washington Monthly and dozens of other national and international publications. A native of Maine, he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and six continents, and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during and after the collapse of communism. His investigative reporting for the Telegram won a 2012 George Polk Award. His book, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, was named a Best Book of 2011 by the editors of The New Republic and the Globalist and won the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Non-Fiction. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago, he lives in Midcoast Maine.

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    • 3/5
      Book explores a very busy time for pirates - 1700-1720+-.
    • 3/5
      Liked it but it drifted off several times and I just couldn't stay focused on some of the stories. It was surprising (maybe not all that much) that the Pirates of the Carribean movies were actually quite accurate in many ways, based on the book. The "code", the dress, how they were treated and how they treated others... who'da thunk!?
    • 3/5
      I think this should have been a lot more interesting than it was. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrators lack of expression may have been the reason I couldn't really stay focused. The last few chapters where the author covered the lives of the most notorious pirates was the most interesting part of the book. Some of the descriptions of abuse and torture were a little hard to listen to--especially where children were involved.
    • 4/5
      Informative, fascinating, and fun. A great book about pirates, who apparently say "Damn" even more then I thought. Amazed this covers only a 10 year period.
      Lots of names of people places and ships that made it a little tough to focus at times, but otherwise a thoroughly enjoyable read.
    • 4/5
      Amazingly detailed history of the golden age of pirates (early 1700s). A lot of names, places and dates, but you get the sense of what the era was like.
    • 4/5
      When you think about it, there don't seem to be too many stories, fictitious or otherwise, about what was really going on over here in the New World in the 18th century. Sure, maybe stuff about settlers on the New England seaboard, or ongoing Spanish domination in Central and South America, but the Caribbean is sort of a mystery spot in my understanding of historical geo-politics.Thanks to this book, I have a better grasp. Sometimes engrossing, sometimes rhythmic repetitive narrative, The Republic of Pirates will give you a biographical painting of the top pirates of the early 1700's, as well as the way the chips were falling in the islands of the Caribbean and the swamps in the southeastern US mainland. What it does well is tell the histories of the individual pirate captains and those who try to quell them. The book is simple in structure, its chapters essentially chronological. It touches on the notion of the pseudo-democracy built by the scads of pirates in Proto-Bahamian islands. But then it stops touching. I would have expected more introspection into the mechanics of their sub-society. I would have liked to see something more intriguing than a group of sometimes inexplicably merciful but mostly brutish thugs who, you know, wanted to steal stuff, drink a lot, and get rich. Not that we don't all want to do that. But I was a bit disappointed that we didn't see more depth here. If you like your pop history, and you want to read about PIRATES!!!!! this is a good choice for you. Just don't expect a particularly meaningful thesis.