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Pirates: Predators of the Seas, by Angus Konstam
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Angus Konstam has made a lifelong study of maritime history and archeology, the history of early European development, and he holds degrees in history and archeology. He is a museum professional with experience in both Britain and the United States, where he was a chief curator of the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West. He is also the author of Blackbeard: America’s Most Notorious Pirate. Konstam lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.Roger Michael Kean has been a journalist, filmmaker, and editor of historical reference books for many years, including The History of Pirates and The History of Shipwrecks. Kean is also the author of The Complete Chronicle of the Emperors of Rome and Forgotten Power: Byzantium—Bulwark of Christianity. He lives in the medieval, walled town of Ludlow in the Welsh Marches of England.David Cordingly is an English naval historian and an authority on pirates. He is the author of Under the Black Flag, Heroines and Harlots: Women at Sea in the Great Age of Sail, The Billy Ruffian: His Majesty's Ship Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon, and Spanish Gold: Captain Woodes Rogers & the Pirates of the Caribbean.Gail Selinger has been fascinated with pirates since the age of nine. She has studied fencing and black powder weaponry, and has been a gunner on several tall ships. She has lent her expertise to many television and movie productions. As a pirate historian she writes, teaches, and lectures on the social, political, and economic ramifications of pirates throughout world history. She resides in Redlands, California.
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Product details
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse; Reprint edition (May 17, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1510702857
ISBN-13: 978-1510702851
Product Dimensions:
8.2 x 1 x 9.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.7 out of 5 stars
22 customer reviews
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This is a smaller sized version of several highly illustrated editions of pirate books, and textually wise, better than some. There is a big book out there "A World Wide Illustrated History: PIRATES -- Terror on the High Seas from the Caribbean to the South China Sea", also edited by David Cordingly; that one is much larger, even better illustrated, but the test leaves something to be desired. This one is smaller, thiner, but also with fine visuals, but also a better textual treatment of the subject. I like both of these books, but prefer this one for the reading, and the other for the looking. Get both, if you can find them cheap enough. This volume does go a bit deeper into the subject matter than some others and may be one of the better basic studies. Read A General History of Pirates by Capt. Charles Johnson (1724) for the standard version of the stories of individual pirates (reading books 300 years old can be a little bit of a challenge, but you get used to it).The contents of this book provide a history of piracy from ancient times to the present and cover a wide variety of topics. One herein will learn of piracy in the Middle Ages and the development of the corsairs of North Africa. It gives a thorough picture of the whole spectrum of activities along the Spanish Main from the earliest days onward, and does not concentrate on the so-called "Golden Age". There is further a chapter on piracy in the South China Sea. The book features good maps in addition to the other copious illustrations. This book is also somewhat devoid of the sensationalism which many of the earlier works provided, and one does not get a lot of the "pirates as a cultural phenomena" stuff. This a a good, solid, overall history of the sea robbers as the real things.
This is a wonderfully written book which is a history of piracy from its roots in ancient Egypt right up to the present day. The book not only discusses the "Golden Age of Piracy" when Morgan, Blackbeard and Captain Kidd plied their trade in the Caribbean, but it also covers the extensive pirate activity in the ancient world as well as its modern manifestation. The links between the breakdown of social order or a political power vacuum and its effects on the rise of piracy during various historical ages are addressed as is the centuries long pirate conflict between Islam and Christendom during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This is a well written historical work and the pirates are portrayed as the frequently ruthless and bloodthirsty men (and some women) they were rather than as the charming rogues of so many Hollywood motion pictures. The book is also full of detailed full color maps and pictures relating to piracy which both ably supplements the text as well as being esthetically pleasing in their own right. The principle author Angus Konstam was a commentator on a recent History Channel documentary on piracy and his in-depth knowledge of the subject makes this book enjoyable by both a serious student of the subject as well as the newly interested reader. In these days of "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies and the "Pirate Master" reality show this book is a welcome dose of historical fact into a subject which has been long been dominated by romantic fantasies
This is an Osprey book, so you need to think in terms of an adult version of the Eyewitness picture books. You shouldn't expect an exhaustively comprehensive treatment of the subject, after all they tend to be only 1/4 inch thick.So, with expectations aligned, this is a fairly well done treatment of the subject of pirates from the Golden Age of Piracy. There are quite a few pictures to compliment the text and the topics covered include their origins, dress, tactics, flags, ports and ships. Konstam gives us some brief biographies of a few of the famous names like Teach, Bonny, Reade, Rackam, Vane, Every, Bonnet, Kidd and the Dread Pirate Roberts.An excellent overview suitable for adolescents and adults, for more detail on William Kidd I suggest Richard Zacks' The Pirate Hunter, for more of an overview of piracy through the ages I suggest Konstam's The History of Pirates.
This is a great book to anyone interested on this period and in piracy.Angus Konstam's text is both concise and accurate,while Angus McBride's illustrations are certainly some of the best I have ever seen.The book is mostly about British pirates which should be expected,since Osprey is from Great Britain,and British sailors were always inclined towards piratical activities.The sections on pirate warfare and pirate codes are particularly nice,and you get biographies on such pirates as Blackbeard and Captain Kidd as well.The only thing I miss is a color cut-away illustration of a pirate ship.Even though,I must say It's an A+ job from front to back cover.
Rebels, revolutionaries, terrorists, criminals? Different feathers off the same turkey...think about jt.
Love the artwork and surface texts.
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