The  buccaneers and marooners of America
Subtitle: being an account of the famous adventures and daring deeds of certain notorious freebooters of the Spanish Main.
By: Edited by Howard Pyle.
Contributors: Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911, ed.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
Edition: A new illustrated ed.
Publisher: Gryphon Books
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Buccaneers -- Early works to 1800; Pirates -- Caribbean Area -- Early works to 1800; Pirates -- Early works to 1800; Spanish Main; Caribbean Area -- History -- To 1810
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Original title: Americaensche zee-roovers.
Facsim. reprint of the 1891 ed. Pt. 1 reprinted from the 1st English ed. (1684) of De Americaensche zee-roovers, by A. O. Exquemelin. Pt. 2 reprinted from A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates ... By Captain Charles Johnson, from the 3d ed., London, 1725. The latter is attributed to Daniel Defoe based on internal textual relationship to his works of proven authorship together with supporting external evidence. Cf. J. R. Moore. Defoe in the pillory. Bloomington, Ind., 1939, p. 126-188.
Table of contents: title: Editor's introduction.; title: The translator to the reader (of 1684).; title: The history of the buccaneers of America, by A. O. Exquemelin.; title: A genuine account of four notorious pirates, by C. Johnson. Captain Teach alias Blackbeard. Captain William Kidd. Captain Bartholomew and his crew. Captain Avery and his crew.