num_pages: 392
description: Originally published in 1724, this instantaneous bestseller delivered a dramatic and detailed chronicle of robbery and murder on the high seas. The General History's vivid prose and graphic accounts not only were mainly responsible for the posthumous reputations of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but also have inspired fictional pirates, from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island to Errol Flynn's movies.
language: English
title: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
titlecomplete: A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
genres: Pirates, Biography, Classics, Research, History, 18th Century, Crime, Historical, Nonfiction, Adventure
ratings_count: 1923
publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers