Stuart Robertson
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Fictional works have colored Pirates' images into the romantic, swashbuckling anti-hero, who forced prisoners to walk the plank and sought buried treasure where X marks the spot. Yet the reality was often far more extraordinary and violent. Compiled within extracts from biographies of the period, letters and court documents, news articles and pamphlets offering the latest gossip on pirate trials and executions, survivors' statements and even royal...
2) The Odyssey
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A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the wanderings of Odysseus after the fall of Troy. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.