TY - BOOK AU - Defoe,Daniel TI - The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II.: Containing the lives of Captain Misson, Captain Bowen, Captain Kidd, Captain Tew, Captain Halsey, Captain White, Captain Condent, Captain Bellamy, Captain Fly, Captain Howard, Captain Lewis, Captain Cornelius, Captain Williams, Captain Burgess, Captain North, and their several crews AV - F2155 PY - 2018/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Pirates -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_History_of_the_Pyrates; Release date is 2018-04-20; Produced by Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by Digital Collections, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The History of the Pyrates. Vol. II." by Daniel Defoe is a book published in 1724. This second volume chronicles pirates from earlier decades, featuring profiles of notorious figures and their exploits on the high seas. The author ventures further from historical sources here, embellishing accounts and including three possibly fictional captains. This influential work helped shape popular conceptions of piracy, introducing iconic elements like buried treasure and the Jolly Roger flag that became staples of pirate literature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57005 ER -