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<p><b>Real-life accounts of the world¿s most notorious pirates, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond</b><br><br>Spanning three centuries and eight thousand nautical miles, and compiled by a direct descendant of a sailor who waged war with pirates in the early nineteenth century, <i>The Penguin Book of Pirates</i> takes us behind the eye patches, the peg legs, and the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger and into the no-man¿s-land of piracy that is rife with paradoxes and plot twists.<br><br>Here, in a fascinating array of accounts that include trial transcripts, journalism, ship logs, and more, are the grit and patois of real maritime marauders like the infamous Blackbeard; the pirates who inspired Jack Sparrow in <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i>, Stede Bonnet in Max¿s <i>Our Flag Means Death</i>, and the Dread Pirate Roberts in <i>The Princess Bride</i>; the astoundingly egalitarian multi-ethnic and multilingual crews that became enmeshed in historical horrors like the slave tra