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Online Books & Magazine Articles on Piracy and Related Topics
For those interested in Pirates and Piracy there is a wealth of books (and other printed materials), both fiction and non-fiction, offered free online at various sites. Most of these are in the public domain. There is Project Gutenburg at www.gutenberg.org to name one. The books featured are full books, many with original illustrations. I have listed below a direct connection to various books from the Guttenburg site. The “Making of America” site at Cornell University Library is another site that offers full books and articles on Piracy and Pirates. More "Making of America" books can be found at the University of Michigan website. There are a few other sites that provide digital archives of printed material that are of interest to pirate historians and enthusiasts.
PROJECT GUTENBURG
THE PIRATES OWN BOOK
by Charles Ellms
Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12216/12216-h/12216-h.htm
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
by Frank R. Stockton
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17188/17188-h/17188-h.htm
HOWARD PYLE'S BOOK OF PIRATES
Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the
Spanish Main http://www.gutenberg.org/files/973/973-h/973-h.htm
ON THE SPANISH MAIN
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19396/19396-h/19396-h.htm
The Pirates of Malabar
by John Biddulph
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11399/11399-8.txt
The
Pirates of Panama
by A. O. Exquemelin
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26690
Captain Blood
by Rafael Sabatini
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/cpbld11.txt
The LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
THE
BuccaneerS OF AMERICA, 1678
by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin
In Dutch, but with translation available
http://www.loc.gov/flash/pagebypage/buccaneers/bookBorder.html
Cornell University Library
Buccaneers and Marooners of the
Spanish Main
by Howard Pyle
Harper's new monthly magazine. / Volume 75, Issue 448 pp. 502-513 September 1887
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK4014-0075-64
Captain Kidd - Why he was Hung
by B. F. De Costa
The Galaxy/Volume 7, Issue 5 pp. 742-747 May 1869 http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ACB8727-0007-104
The Sea-Robbers of New York
by Thomas A. Janvier
Harper's new monthly magazine
Volume 89, Issue 534 pp. 813-828 November, 1894 http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK4014-0089-87
Buccaneers of the Spanish Main
pp. 514-523
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABK4014-0011-64
The Piracy of Captain Kidd
by H. C. Murphy
Littel's Living Age No. 90 January 1846 pp. 201-207 http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABR0102-0008-7
Commerce in the Colonies,(Piracy
section)
by Edward Eggleston
The Century; a popular quarterly. Volume 28, Issue 2 June 1884 pp. 254-256 http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABP2287-0028-60
The Buccaneers of America
by William L. Stone
pp. 703-714
Continental monthly Volume 3, Issue 6 June 1863 http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABR1802-0003-134
The Buccaneers of America. II
by W. L. Stone: pp. 175-188
Continental monthly Volume 4, Issue 2 August 1863 http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABR1802-0004-35
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Pirates of the eastern seas
(1618-1723)
a lurid page of history
by Charles Grey http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=genpub;cc=genpub;view=toc;idno=AFK6977.0001.001
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.
by A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin
Published by Boston: Sanborn, Carter, & Bazin, 1856
(new illustrations made for this edition, overall - not very good or accurate)
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AJL5272.0001.001
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 ...
by Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781-1857.
Publication Info: New-York,: Harper & bros., 1864.
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/baa9233.0001.001
Relations between the English and
Scotch Pirates and the "Reformation Movement"
by Sarsfield Hubert Burke, pp. 124-134
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/bac8387.0042.247
The nether side of New York; or, The
vice, crime and poverty of the great metropolis.
"The Harbor Thieves" pp. 35 to 42
by Edward Crapsey
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/1134689.0001.001
Life and Times of Lafitte
by George A. Pierce
pp. 372-387
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acg1336.1-11.004
Lafitte, "the Pirate"-Early
Times in the Southwest
pp. 145-157
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/acg1336.1-19.002
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - CENTER FOR ELECTRONIC TEXT & IMAGE
D. Petre, Her Book
A medicine book from 1705 http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/diaries/doro/medicine/055.html
FROM OLD BOOKS
Dictionary for the foul tongued
The 1736 Canting Dictionary [thieving slang]. http://www.fromoldbooks.org/NathanBailey-CantingDictionary/transcription
GOOGLE BOOKS (almost all downloadable in pdf files)
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
by Howard Pyle http://books.google.com/books?id=lznAe0scmCEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1&sig=ACfU3U0r6iM_IRHcjHlOtZUK-_udkm93VA
The Pirates Own Book
by Charles Ellms http://books.google.com/books?id=HpNo85jWw6QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1&sig=ACfU3U00pD613xGoX8Nay9P7AuI0TOLNSg
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
by Frank R. Stockton http://books.google.com/books?id=KQ_xXdeVviwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1&sig=ACfU3U07lX7YqHEwoVhZdne_JGMYkHlloA
The Pirates' Who's who
by Philip Gosse http://books.google.com/books?id=rIXe67Wp2sIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1&sig=ACfU3U0D5upNxlmnm3o-fAadcx9r0bBa5w
Pirates and Piracy
by Oscar Herrmann http://books.google.com/books?id=i8QBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1
Adventures of Pirates and
Sea-rovers
By Howard Pyle, J. H. Upshur, P. Hull, R. Gourlay an others http://books.google.com/books?id=fM45AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1#PPP10,M1
Boy's Book of Pirates
by Howard Pyle http://books.google.com/books?id=qWIjAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1
Cochin China and My Experiences in
it
By Edward Brown
(Also published under title: A seaman's narrative of his adventures during a
captivity among Chinese pirates on the coast of Cochin China) http://books.google.com/books?id=jWtFer811LYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1
History of the Pirates who Infested
the China Sea from 1807-1810
By Yung-lun Yüan, Karl Friedrich Neumann http://books.google.com/books?id=CbRoSSV9zSUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1
The Lives and Bloody Exploits of the
Most Noted Pirates, Their Trials and Executions...
By Ezra Strong http://books.google.com/books?id=ufabWl1cXm0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1
An account of the pirates executed at
St. Christopher's, in the West Indies ...
By Enoch WOOD http://books.google.com/books?id=YEuCzYvrGTgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1
The atrocities of the pirates; being
a narrative of the sufferings endured by the author ...
By Aaron Smith http://books.google.com/books?id=FtIGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Pirates&lr=&as_brr=1#PPR1,M1
INTERNET ARCHIVE
Piracy Off The Florida Coast and
Elsewhere
by Dr. Samuel A. Green
http://www.archive.org/details/piracyoffflorida00greerich
OTHER BOOKS
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