Buccaneers
Here are entered works on sea adventurers who preyed upon Spanish ships and settlements in the Caribbean area from the late 1500's to the early 1700's, but chiefly in the 17th century.
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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower terms:- Buccaneers -- Biography
- Buccaneers -- Caribbean Area
- Buccaneers -- Early works to 1800
- Buccaneers -- Fiction
- Buccaneers -- History
- Buccaneers -- Juvenile literature
- Buccaneers -- Poetry
- Morgan, Henry, 1635?-1688
- Filibusters (Buccaneers)
- Freebooters
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Raveneau de Lussan, Buccaneer of the Spanish Main and Early French Filibuster of the Pacific: A Translation into English of his Journal of a Voyage into the South Seas in 1684 and the Following Years With the Filibusters (Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1930), by Sieur Raveneau de Lussan, ed. by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur (page images at HathiTrust)- The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century (London: Methuen and Co., c1910), by C. H. Haring (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Great Pirate Stories (2 volumes in 1; New York: Tudor Pub. Co. 1929), ed. by Joseph Lewis French (Gutenberg text and page images)
- On the Spanish Main: or, Some English Forays on the Isthmus of Darien (London: Methuen and Co., c1906), by John Masefield (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Dampier's Voyages: Consisting of a New Voyage Round the World, a Supplement to the Voyage Round the World, Two Voyages to Campeachy, a Discourse of Winds, a Voyage to New Holland, and a Vindication, in Answer to the Chimerical Relation of William Funnell (2 volumes; London: E. Grant Richards, 1906), by William Dampier, ed. by John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust)
- In the Wake of the Buccaneers (New York and London: The Century Co., 1923), by A. Hyatt Verrill
- The Rare Trauailes of Iob Hortop, an Englishman, Who Was Not Heard of in Three and Twentie Yeeres Space (1925 photostat reprint; originally published London: Printed for W. Wright, 1591), by Job Hortop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier, Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Bucaniers (New York: Harper and Bros., 1864), by C. I. Johnstone
- The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life of Sir Henry Morgan; With an Account of the English Settlement of the Island of Jamaica (1655-1688) (1935), by E. A. Cruikshank (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The Life of Sir Henry Morgan; With an Account of the English Settlement of the Island of Jamaica (1655-1688) (1935), by E. A. Cruikshank (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer and Governor (New York: Covici Friede, 1933), by Walter Adolphe Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (Both English and French) (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1893), by A. O. Exquemelin, ed. by H. Powell, contrib. by Basil Ringrose (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of the Buccaneers of America: Containing Detailed Accounts of Those Bold and Daring Freebooters, Chiefly Along the Spanish Main, in the West Indies, and in the Great South Sea, Succeeding the Civil Wars in England (new edition, with notes on piracy off the New England coast; Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin; Portland: Sanborn and Carter, 1856), by A. O. Exquemelin (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Privateer (c1952), by Gordon Daviot (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Cup of Gold (Tower books edition; Cleveland and New York: World Pub. Co., 1944), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats at FadedPage)
- The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (Both English and French) (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1893), by A. O. Exquemelin, ed. by H. Powell, contrib. by Basil Ringrose (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of the Buccaneers of America: Containing Detailed Accounts of Those Bold and Daring Freebooters, Chiefly Along the Spanish Main, in the West Indies, and in the Great South Sea, Succeeding the Civil Wars in England (new edition, with notes on piracy off the New England coast; Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin; Portland: Sanborn and Carter, 1856), by A. O. Exquemelin (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Continuation of A Voyage to New-Holland, &c., in the Year 1699 (1709), by William Dampier (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Voyage to New Holland, &c., in the Year 1699 (1703), by William Dampier (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Voyages and Descriptions (1699), by William Dampier (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Adam Penfeather, Buccaneer: His Early Exploits (c1940), by Jeffery Farnol (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main (Boston: G. W. Studley, 1892), by Ned Buntline (page images at HathiTrust)
- Stolen Treasure (illustrated by the author; 1907), by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, by Howard Pyle, ed. by Merle Johnson (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Cup of Gold (Tower books edition; Cleveland and New York: World Pub. Co., 1944), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats at FadedPage)
- The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (New York: Macmillan, 1898), by Frank R. Stockton (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
- Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (Every Boy's Library edition; New York, Grosset and Dunlap, c1898), by Frank R. Stockton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Buccaneer Ballads (London: E. Mathews, 1910), by E. H. Visiak, contrib. by John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Pirates- Narrative of Joshua Gee of Boston, Mass., While He Was Captive in Algeria of the Barbary Pirates, 1680-1687 (this edition 1943), by Joshua Gee, ed. by Charles A. Goodwin, contrib. by Albert Carlos Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
- Great Pirate Stories (2 volumes in 1; New York: Tudor Pub. Co. 1929), ed. by Joseph Lewis French (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Documents Relatifs aux Corsaires Tunisiens (2 Octobre 1777-4 Mai 1824): Documents Inédits Publiés Sous les Auspices de la Résidence Générale (in French; Tunis: J. Barlier et cie, 1925), by Pierre Grandchamp
- The History of the Pirates: Containing the Lives of Those Noted Pirate Captains, Misson, Bowen, Kidd, Tew, Halsey, White, Condent, Bellamy, Fly, Howard, Lewis, Cornelius, Williams, Burgess, North, and Their Several Crews (Haverhill, MA: T. Carey, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers (originally published 1837), by Charles Ellms (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers (Portland, ME: Sanborn and Carter; Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, and Co., 1844), by Charles Ellms (multiple formats at Google)
- Pirates: The Lives and Adventures of Sundry Notorious Pirates (London: J. Cape, 1921), by Charles Johnson, illust. by Claud Lovat Fraser (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pirates: The Lives and Adventures of Sundry Notorious Pirates (New York: R.M. McBride and Co., 1922), by Charles Johnson, illust. by Claud Lovat Fraser
- Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy: A Weird Series of Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, From The Earliest Part of The Century To The Present Time, With Accounts of Providential Escapes and Heart-Rending Fatalities (New York: Hurst and Co., n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy; With Extracts From the Journal of James Brooke, Esq. of Sarāwak (third edition, 2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1847), by Henry Keppel, contrib. by Rajah of Sarawak James and Walter K. Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Island of the Sea: Descriptive of the Past and Present of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies; With a Few Short Stories About Bluebeard's and Blackbeard's Castles (second edition; St. Thomas, VI: The author, ca. 1896), by Charles Edwin Taylor
- A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c.; To Which Is Added, A Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the Most Noted Pirates, Interspersed With Several Remarkable Tryals of the Most Notorious Malefactors, at the Sessions-House in the Old Baily, London (work often attributed to Defoe; Birmingham: Printed by R. Walker, 1742), by Charles Johnson, contrib. by Daniel Defoe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A General History of the Pyrates, From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time (title page names author as Charles Johnson, but work often attributed to Defoe; second edition; London: T. Warner, 1724), by Charles Johnson
- The History of the Pyrates (successor volume to "A General History of the Pyrates", credited to Johnson but often attributed to Defoe; London: T. Woodward, 1728), by Charles Johnson (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
- A True and Certaine Report of the Beginnings, Proceedings, Overthrowes, and Now Present Estate of Captaine Ward and Danseker, the Two Late Famous Pirates (1609), by Andrew Barker (illustrated HTML at zeerovery.nl)
- The Vial Poured Out Upon the Sea: A Remarkable Relation of Certain Pirates Brought Unto a Tragical and Untimely End; Some Conferences With Them, After Their Condemnation; Their Behaviour at Their Execution; and a Sermon Preached on that Occasion (Boston: Printed by T. Fleet for N. Belknap, 1726), by Cotton Mather (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (Both English and French) (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1893), by A. O. Exquemelin, ed. by H. Powell, contrib. by Basil Ringrose (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of the Buccaneers of America: Containing Detailed Accounts of Those Bold and Daring Freebooters, Chiefly Along the Spanish Main, in the West Indies, and in the Great South Sea, Succeeding the Civil Wars in England (new edition, with notes on piracy off the New England coast; Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin; Portland: Sanborn and Carter, 1856), by A. O. Exquemelin (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Nation of Pirates: English Piracy in its Heyday (c1976), by C. M. Senior (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Fortunes of Captain Blood (c1936), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- Beauvallet (London: W. Heinemann, reprinted 1932), by Georgette Heyer (Gutenberg text)
- The Pirates of Ersatz (originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, February-April 1959), by Murray Leinster, illust. by Kelly Freas (Gutenberg text)
- Captain Blood: His Odyssey (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927), by Rafael Sabatini, illust. by Clyde O. DeLand (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Captain Blood, by Rafael Sabatini (Gutenberg text and audio)
- Captain Blood: His Odyssey (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1922), by Rafael Sabatini, illust. by N. C. Wyeth
- The Chronicles of Captain Blood (1930; published in book form in 1931 as Captain Blood Returns), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates (New York: George H. Doran Co., c1919), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
- The Frozen Pirate, by William Clark Russell
- Gentlemen All and Merry Companions (Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co., 1922), by Ralph Bergengren, illust. by John Sloan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Haunted Island: A Pirate Romance (London: E. Mathews, 1910), by E. H. Visiak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates, by Howard Pyle, ed. by Merle Johnson (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1905), by Max Pemberton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The King of Pirates: Being an Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar (published anonymously, attributed by some sources to Defoe; London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, 1720), contrib. by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Lady and the Pirate: Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1913), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Harry A. Mathes (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
- The Pirate Woman (as published in All-Story Weekly, 1918), by A. E. Dingle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Rose of Paradise (New York: Harper and Bros., 1888), by Howard Pyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Sea-Hawk, by Rafael Sabatini (Gutenberg text)
- The Sea-Hawk (illustrated with scenes from the 1924 silent film; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, ca. 1924), by Rafael Sabatini
- WO₂ (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by Maurice Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wolves of the Sea: Being a Tale of the Colonies From the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur", by Randall Parrish (Gutenberg text)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (London: Chatto and Windus, c1929), by Richard Hughes
- The Air Pirate (London: Hurst and Blackett, ca. 1919), by C. Ranger Gull
- Porto Bello Gold (New York: Brentano's, c1924), by Arthur D. Howden Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Porto Bello Gold (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1924), by Arthur D. Howden Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Roach and Co., Pirates; and Other Stories (Indianapolis and Kansas City: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898), by Hector Fuller, contrib. by John Clark Ridpath (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Facing the Flag (New York: The Federal Book Company, 1897), by Jules Verne (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
- Facing the Flag (New York: F. M. Lupton, 1897), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg HTML)
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