{"product_id":"2940015647853","title":"The Lives and Adventures of Sundry Notorious Pirates (Illustrated)","description":"Alas! this little book mentions no Poll of Portsmouth, nor does it favour us with a \"Yeo, heave, oh!\" nor is there so very much \"cut and thrust\" about it. It was written in that uninspiring day when Pirates were a very real nuisance to such law-abiding folk as you and I; but it has the merit of being written, if not by a Pirate, at least by one who came into actual contact with them. I am not at all sure that \"merit\" is the right word to use in this instance, for to be a Pirate does not necessarily ensure you making a good author. Indeed, it might almost be considered as a ban to the fine literary technique of an Addison or a Temple. It has, however, the virtue of being in close touch with some of the happenings chronicled. Not that our author saw above a tithe of what he records had he done so he would have been \"set a-sundrying\" at execution dock long before he had had the opportunity of putting pen to paper; but, as far as posterity was concerned, he was lucky in his friend William Ingram, evidently a fellow of good memory and a ready tongue, who, as our author states in his Preface, \"was a Pirate\" and who eventually was hanged in good piratical company on the llth of June, 1714. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe actual history of the little book, the major part of which is here reprinted, is as follows: Its full title is \"The History and Lives of all the most Notorious Pirates and their Crews,\" and the fifth edition, from which our text is taken, was printed in 1735. A reproduction of the original title-page is given overleaf. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA little research into the book's history shows us that it is consistent throughout, and that it is a \"piracy\", in the publisher's sense of the word, of a much larger and more pretentious work by Captain Charles Johnson, titled \"A General History of the Pyrates from their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence to the Present Time; With the Remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny.\"","brand":"Balefire Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146352345328,"sku":"2940015647853","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015647853_p0.jpg?v=1763622583","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015647853","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}