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• Villains of All Nations

  Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age

  Rediker, Marcus

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  This is an excellent place to start if you are curious about how pirates organized themselves and why we have so many stories about them centuries later. Rediker's works are cited in most of the rest of these works about pirates, so start…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pirate Women

  the Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas

  Duncombe, Laura Sook,

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  There've been oft-overlooked female pirates beyond Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and Laura Duncombe explores their tales.

• Pirate Enlightenment, Or, The Real Libertalia

  Graeber, David

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  David Graeber's last work is about Madagascar and the fascinating stories of pirate utopias that existed there, and what the fables mean for real anthropology and social organization.

• Enemy of All Mankind

  a True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt

  Johnson, Steven, 1968-

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  At one point in history Henry Every was the most hunted man on the planet in his ship known as the Fancy. And then he disappeared.

• Born to Be Hanged

  the Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

  Thomson, Keith, 1965-

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  "Thomson unravels the complex relationship between piracy and colonial governments in the Americas, where England and Spain struggled for primacy, and describes local tribes and flora and fauna in meticulous detail." - Publishers Weekly

• The Desert and the Sea

  977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast

  Moore, Michael Scott

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  Michael Scott Moore wanted to learn about modern piracy off the Horn of Africa, and then he was captured. This is a sympathetic but incisive study of the sociology of pirates in the 21st century.

• How Music Got Free

  the End of An Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

  Witt, Stephen

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  The story of how mp3s and music sharing rocked an industry, and was actually because of a big criminal conspiracy.

• Radio Caroline

  The True Story of the Boat That Rocked

  Clark, Ray

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  A collection of interviews and history of the pirate radio station that did its best to challenge the BBC's bland pop music fare in the 1960s.

• Black Flag of the North :

  Canada and Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates /

  Suthren, Victor J. H.

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  A look at the "Dread Pirate Bart" who sailed as a pirate in the Atlantic Ocean, with special focus on the Canadian connections.

• The Confusion

  Stephenson, Neal

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  This is the only work of fiction on this list, and not very factual, but it is a great pirate story.