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The Romance of Piracy

by Edward Keble CHATTERTON (1878 - 1944)

The Earliest Pirates

The Library of Romance is a series of books concerning the romance of scientific facts, be it biology, chemistry, history, or politics. This volume is one of history, concerning an account of the known facts of piracy, starting with the Vikings, and arching in history and geography toward an account of piracy in Chinese waters at around the time of publication of this volume (1914). - Summary by Carolin

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Listen next episodes of The Romance of Piracy:
A 'Gentleman' of Fortune , A Notorious American Pirate , A Wonderful Achievement , 'Black Beard' Teach , Chance and Circumstance , Cruising among Chinese Pirates , Elizabethan Seamen and Turkish Pirates , Galleys and Gallantry , Paul Jones, Pirate and Privateer , Piracy in Elizabethan Times , Piracy in the Early Tudor Times , Pirates of the Persian Gulf , Plot and Counter-Plot , Smith and the Pirate Schooner , The Corsairs of the South , The Cruise of the 'Defensor de Pedro' , The Exploits of Captain Avery , The Good Ship 'Exchange' of Bristol , The Great Sir Henry Morgan , The Last of the Algerine Corsairs , The North Sea Pirates , The Pirates of Borneo , The Story of Aaron Smith , The Story of Captain Kidd , The Stuart Army Goes forth against the 'Pyrats' , The Wasps at Work