Though literature, films, and folklore have romanticized pirates
as gallant seaman who hunted for treasure in exotic locales, David
Cordingly, a former curator at the National Maritime Museum in England,
reveals the facts behind the legends of such outlaws as Captain Kidd,
Blackbeard, and Calico Jack. Even stories about buried treasure are
fictitious, he says, yet still the myth remains. Though pirate captains
were often sadistic villains and crews endured barbarous tortures, were
constantly threatened with the possibility of death by hanging, drowning
in a storm, or surviving a shipwreck on a hostile coast, pirates are
still idealized. Cordingly examines why the myth of the romance of
piratehood endures and why so few lived out their days in luxury on the
riches they had plundered.Download [EPUB + MOBI]: http://goo.gl/AqDIOS
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