When a former UK pirate DJ writes a book on piracy and uses an epigraph from Dr. Dre ("You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge"), you'd be forgiven for expecting an anarchist's ...

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Keith Thomson of Birmingham has been interested in pirates for a very long time. Before he brought out his action novels, “Once a Spy” and “Twice a Spy,” he had written the novel “Pirates of Pensacola ...

Fencing booty is the most underappreciated problem of historical pirate logistics. Myths and stories about “going on the account” (as high-seas piracy was known during its late–seventeenth- and ...

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Gaiman first scribbled notes for himself on this book in 2009 — a few lines from a poem about a literal pirate stew — and came back to the idea years later as he was looking for a story to read to his ...