The romantic fiction of Pirates as swashbuckling marauders terrorizing the high seas has long eclipsed historical fact.
With essays by the foremost scholars on these countercultural "social bandits"as Lingua Franca recently dubbed themthis collection examines various aspects of the phe.
Bandits at Sea offers a long-overdue corrective to the mythology and the mystique which has plagued the study of Pirates and served to deny them their rightful legitimacy as subjects of investigation.
The romantic fiction of Pirates as swashbuckling marauders terrorizing the high seas has long eclipsed historical fact