Pirates
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Broader term:Related term:Narrower terms:- Pirates -- Africa, North
- Pirates -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
- Pirates -- Caribbean Area
- Pirates -- China
- Pirates -- Early works to 1800
- Pirates -- England
- Pirates -- Family relationships
- Pirates -- Fiction
- Pirates -- Greece
- Pirates -- History
- Pirates -- Juvenile fiction
- Pirates -- Juvenile literature
- Pirates -- Scotland
- Women pirates
- Barbary corsairs
- Corsairs
- Freebooters
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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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by Louis Rhead (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Treasure Island (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1883), by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Treasure Island (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz; et al., 1884), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Treasure Island (with notes and study guide; New York: Charles E. Merrill Co., c1909), by Robert Louis Stevenson, ed. by Franklin T. Baker (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
- Treasure Island (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1911), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Treasure Island (from a 2002 Gramercy Books reprint edition; copyrighted additions omitted), by Robert Louis Stevenson, illust. by Milo Winter (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- 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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