The real Master and Commander 'There is no man I envy so much as Lord Cochrane' Lord Byron
An introduction to maritime prints, drawings and watercolours. The text includes a sweeping historical survey of marine artists and printmakers from earliest times to the present day.
The image of the pirate is one that has never failed to capture the imagination, but behind the melodramatic portrayals of such villains as Long John Silver, with wooden leg and... Læs mere
* Entertaining, popular but also serious account of pirates and pirate life by the acknowledged expert on the subject.
The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor of the Bahamas, who brought them to book.