A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Johnson

A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates

Charles Johnson

370 pages first pub 1735 (editions)

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A facsimile edition of a classic source for the history of piracy, as used by Robert Louis Stevenson in the writing of Treasure Island. Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the best-selling books of 1724, when it was fir...

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