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A Merry Read an Bonney - Reading Suggestions

"Seamanship In The Age of Sail" by John Harland. Yeah, yeah, that's all well and good but I still don't feel like I can sail a sloop in my spare time. Here's the one, perhaps only, book you've been looking for. Detailed descriptions, complete with illustrations and diagrams, of how tall ships operate, nautical terms, the workings of sail, line and tackle and the language seamen of the era actually used. This is for hardcores only but given how much time our characters spend on a ship it might be the single most important book for realistic storytelling (at least in forum RP). It's not as obtuse as some similar works, while also being far more complete, and it is accessable to the motivated layman reader.
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Why, I think we need more references to literature like these! And oh dear, aside from Pirate Latitudes... we haven't been reading. Oops :3
 
Not exactly a book per se, but the Internet Archive's "Texts" section has piles of pirate books, including several copies of "The Buccaneers of America". All can be read online, and most can be downloaded in a variety of formats.

http://www.archive.org/details/texts
 
My first novel "The Pirate Devlin" is released on 4th Feb 2010 in the UK and Europe. Publishes in the US July 2010.

Link to Amazon which says enough about it.
2nd book comes out 2011. Series starts in 1717 and I reckon I have enough legs to carry it through til about 1725. On the third book at the moment. Let me know if anyone wants to know more about it.

My link

Email me
 
The reviews of it look quite promising. :yes I'll keep an eye out for it for sure! :keith

There's just not many folks writing new pirate novels nowadays - that's too bad, considering it's a theme with endless possibilities.
 
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The reviews of it look quite promising. :yes I'll keep an eye out for it for sure! :keith

There's just not many folks writing new pirate novels nowadays - that's too bad, considering it's a theme with endless possibilities.
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I don't think since James Nelson has anyone written a serious treatment, apart from John Drake's Treasure Island prequels but I don't rate them at all. Historical novels are extremely popular in the UK but no-one has latched onto pirates as a resource and as you say it truly does have endless possibilities. I aim to redress that.
Here's the US link.
My link
 
I just got a book yesterday, it's called Pirate Coast by Richard Zacks. I only read a little bit, but it reads like a story rather than just facts and dates (based on a true story).

It's about a secret mission authorized by President Jefferson in 1805 to rescue captured sailors from the Barbary Pirates.
 
Nice find mate, good stuff! :onya
 
i just randomly came across this as i was searching for payment/salary details in the 17th century. It's a look at some of the legal background and writing on behalf of the Dutch East India company(VOC) and is quite an interesting read:

'Pirate, Privateer or Freebooter?':

http://riowang.blogspot.com/2011/02/pirate-privateer-or-freebooter.html

Also the earlier link to this book didn't seem to work anymore:

'The Pirates Own Book':

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12216/12216-h/12216-h.htm

And this site has a few, and i've not seen this one here:

'THE BUCCANEERS IN THE WEST INDIES IN THE XVII CENTURY':

http://www.thepirateking.com/books/books_buccaneersintewestindies_contents.htm
 
ive only scan read the thread so if someone has already recomended it or if its so obvious that im being silly then i apologise but the hornblower serise by c.s forester although it deals mainly with the napolionic wars and the british navy rather than pirates i found the serise to be my faverate of all the navel novels ive ever read although i will be looking up some of the recomendations made here thanks guys keep them comming (soz for the bad spelling)
 
For some reason I can't post the link to it, but its a book that I just found out about recently, it's called The Black Count, glory, revolution, betray and the real Count of Monte Cristo.

Its about a slave sold in France who somehow manages to be trained in fencing and joins the army during the French Revolution.
 
Boy, this thread looks abandoned

I was searching the Internet Archive recently for first-hand accounts of soldiers or sailors and came across this one, that proved to be an interesting read: "A youthful man-o'-warsman, from the diary of an English lad ... who served in the British frigate Macedonian during her memorable action with the American frigate United States; who afterward deserted and entered the American Navy"
A youthful man-o'-warsman, from the diary of an English lad ... who served in the British frigate Macedonian during her memorable action with the American frigate United States; who afterward deserted and entered the American Navy .. : Maclay, Edgar Stanton, 1863-1919 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
 
:ahoy:pirates, :rumgone?)
This is a nice one here! Fell over this zapping through the forum, the title made me curious.:read

I read a lot when I was a young boy, inkl. Treasure Island (who not?), nowadays im a wee bit lazy and prefer to "live" adventures myself in RPG's of all kind!
I will look out for some of the mentioned books, like "Under the Black Flag" and the "Master and Commander" series - btw; for me a movie to watch (x? times), nice made.:cheers
One book that I have kept in mind is no fiction, but sadly, I have only a German copy and don’t know the Original Title! Should be easy to identify for you.

A. Grenfell Price published '65 by Heritage Press, New York
German Title:
Captain James Cook
Endeckungs Fahrten Im Pacific (true, they misspelled the Book-Title):facepalm
Die Logbücher der Reisen 1768 - 1779!

English?:
Discovery Travels in the Pacific - the Logs of the Journey's 1768 - 1779!

Since I have it on my board since my teen age (gahrr, that long already? Still feel like a teen sometimes:pirate07:), you may like to have a look.
I will search for more bio's of this people, like Bonny and Rackham (best I ever read; Galileo Galilei by James Reston), or that "how to speak like a Pirate"
:aar:bird:

Happy Time to all of you
 
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