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Most Notorious Pirates

eaders are in for a rollicking time with these tales of mutiny and plunder on the high seas. This is a new, abridged edition of a book first published in 1734, with an introduction and potted history of piracy by historian and presenter Dr Sam Willis. Piracy, it would seem, was both the Scandi noir and reality television of the 18th century: the public

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