Reviews

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly

maxfieldw's review against another edition

adventurous reflective fast-paced

5.0

weslaf's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.5

zskelton's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

1.0

Like the history channel version of a history book.

nicoleryan00's review against another edition

4.0

well.. you know me and pirates.. a smidge of education on one's interests never does hurt..

birte's review against another edition

dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

kwilbur1998's review against another edition

adventurous informative slow-paced

3.0

Well researched and chock full of information, but contains (in my opinion) an undue amount of information on pirates of fiction (movies, etc) and the organization of chapters is a bit odd, lending to the frequent repetition of some information. I also really disliked the afterword which asserted that women like pirates because pirates are broken people and women love to fix broken men… maybe this was acceptable in the 90s but now it just comes across as out of touch. 

rlse's review against another edition

informative

3.0

oviedorose's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective

4.0

ammonoids's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

This book gained an extra star because of the excellent sources and appendices in the back. A much more reliable source than Sherry, in my opinion, and focused mostly on removing the myth of piracy and emphasizing the brutality of the day. 

dualmon's review against another edition

3.0

Wasn't horrible, but fairly dry and probably over hyped.