The first comprehensive, scholarly look at the artifactual evidence of real pirates, recovered at both shipwrecks and known pirate bases.
-- Archaeology Magazine The reader unused to digesting professional publications will, pardon the pun, sail through this book as if it were a collection of novellas Not only will he/she learn about the realities of trade in the Caribbean and politics in the time of pirates, but will be treated to the most interesting bits of ephemera such as an inve.