TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Charles,active 1724-1731
AU  - Fraser,Claud Lovat
AU  - Defoe,Daniel
TI  - Pirates
AV  - CTF975 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Pirates -- Biography
KW  - Pirates -- History -- 17th century
N1  - Illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_History_of_the_Pyrates; Charles Johnson may possibly be a pseudonym for Daniel Defoe, but it's not entirely clear; Release date is 2008-01-27; Produced by Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from
images generously made available by The Internet
Archive/American Libraries.); Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Pirates" by Charles Johnson is a book published in 1724 containing biographies of contemporary pirates. Written under a pen name by an unknown London author, this work became the prime source for tales of infamous figures like Blackbeard and shaped modern conceptions of piracy. It introduced now-familiar elements including the Jolly Roger flag, treasure burial, and pirates with missing limbs. Though more literary fabrication than historical record, the book profoundly influenced later pirate fiction, including works by Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24439
ER  -