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Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486131948
Considered the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century, this fascinating history by the author of Robinson Crusoe profiles the deeds of Edward (Blackbeard) Teach, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny, others.
Author : Charles Johnson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415286794
This is a print of the 1927 reissued 4th edition of A General History of the Pirates- enhanced by the Arthur L. Hayward's editorial touches.
Author : Charles Captain Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461747130
The classic account of the lives & exploits of the most notorious pirates of the Golden Age—from Anne Bonny to Blackbeard
Author : Charles Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Pirates
ISBN : OCLC:1052172399
Author : Captain Charles Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136484445
A General History of the Pirates has long been a classic of seafaring literature and was inspiration to both Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie. Nothing is known about Captain Charles Johnson, and it is thought that the name may be assumed - there are even some who believe he may have been Daniel Defoe. All that can be stated with any certainty is that in 1724 a small octavo volume appeared that became so popular it grew through 4 editions over 2 years and is still famed today. Historians from both sides of the Atlantic have attested to the accuracy of the work's content. This is a reprint of the 1927 reissued 4th edition - enhanced by the Arthur L. Hayward's editorial touches.
Author : Charles Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0712352740
Captain Charles Johnson's celebrated 'A General History of the Pirates' (1724) is the most famous book about pirates ever written. Buoyed by the volume's runaway success Johnson followed up with the equally engrossing 'The Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen' (1734) which, published here for the first time in two centuries, provides over 50 accounts of the most notorious British criminals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These include the famous highwayman William Davis, alias The Golden Farmer, the cross-Channel gentleman highwayman Claude du Vall, the prolific road adventurer Old Mob and the royalist carriage raider James Hind. Johnson's volumes, featuring fictional accounts based on factual sources, are significant as the forerunners of the real-life criminal biography genre, and for their influence on such early novels as Defoe's 'Moll Flanders' and Fielding's 'Jonathan Wild'. Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new edition of 'Highwaymen' not only includes the very best of these original decorative features but also presents a series of related illustrations, playbills, and portraits from the British Library collections.
Author : Charles Johnson
Publisher : Conway Maritime Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0851777325
This is a print of the 1927 reissued 4th edition of A General History of the Pirates - enhanced by the Arthur L. Hayward's editorial touches.
Author : Charles Johnson,Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522867066
Undoubtedly the most important piece of pirate-related literature in all of history. A faithful republication of the 1724 book with slight edits and formatting. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates in its entirety with all lists and photographs intact, this is a brandnew typeset taken from the original archived copies - transcribed digitally.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0786706228
Originally published in 1724, this instantaneous bestseller delivered a dramatic and detailed chronicle of robbery and murder on the high seas. The General History's vivid prose and graphic accounts not only were mainly responsible for the posthumous reputations of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but also have inspired fictional pirates, from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island to Errol Flynn's movies.
Author : Daniel Defoe,Charles Johnson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1546676791
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of contemporary pirates, which was influential in shaping popular conceptions of pirates. Its author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a pseudonym for one of London's writer-publishers. The prime source for the biographies of many well known pirates, the book gives an almost mythical status to the more colourful characters, and it is likely that the author used considerable licence in his accounts of pirate conversations. The book also contains the name of the pirate flag the Jolly Roger, and shows the skull and bones design.
Author : Charles Johnson,David Cordingly
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Pirates
ISBN : 1472830482
Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the best-selling books of 1724, when it was first published. It provides a sweeping account of what has come to be called the Golden Age of Piracy. It went through four editions in two years, and without doubt owed a substantial part of its success to a dramatic writing style that vividly captures the realities of pirates' savage existence. The book contains documentary evidence of events during the lives of its subjects. In the 270 years since its original publication, Johnson's work has come to be regarded as the classic study of one of the most popular subjects in maritime history.
Author : David Cordingly
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781408846742
This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. Under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), the opening action against Revolutionary France; the battle of the Nile (1798), which halted Napoleon's eastern expansion from Cairo; and the battle of Trafalgar (1805), which established British naval supremacy for 100 years and during which her captain was shot dead with a musket ball an hour before Nelson was mortally wounded. But her crowning glory came six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo, when the Napoleon, trapped in La Rochelle, surrendered to the captain of the ship that had dogged his steps for more than twenty years.
Author : Celia Rees
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408810354
When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But fate ensures that one night the two young women have to save each other and run away to a life no less dangerous but certainly a lot more free. As pirates, they roam the seas, fight pitched battles against their foes and become embroiled in many a heart-quickening adventure. Written in brilliant and sparkling first-person narrative, this is a wonderful novel in which Celia Rees has brought the past vividly and intimately to life.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798452653240
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates was first published in 1724 in Britain, under the pseudonym of Captain Charles Johnson. Giving an almost mythical status to the characters, this book had been influential in shaping popular conceptions of pirates.
Author : Charles Johnson
Publisher : Conway
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0851779190
"This book provides a sweeping account of what has come to be called the Golden age of piracy. It went through four editions in two years, and without doubt owed a substantial part of its success to a dramatic writing style that vividly captures the realities of pirates' savage existence. The book contains documentary evidence of events during the lives of its subjects. In the 270 years since its original publication, Johnson's work has come to be regarded as the classic study of one of the most popular subjects in maritime history."--Publisher description.
