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Title: Arrrgh ! A Staggeringly Good Read !
Review: A tremendous book. If you have any interest in the material - buy it. The stories are superbly told and really capture the flavor of the time through liberal use of original documents. This is a scholarly work that manages to still have fascinating stories within. Pirates who turn themselves in after escaping jail after completing a mysterious "mission" or the sad tale of a pirate whose kindness to those captured by his ship didn't spare him the hangman's noose are all part of this well documented book. Great material including a wonderfully funny ongoing fued between a frustrated Governor and a Royal Ship Captain and their bureaucratic wranglings. I read this on vaction on the Elk River on the Chesapeake - just a great read.
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