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Subject: 
Contemporary Pirate Fiction
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lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Sat, 1 Jun 2002 17:18:21 GMT
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Soooo, anybody have any good recommendations?

A decent read is Wilbur Smith's "Bird of Prey", or something like that.  IIRC,
it's set along the African Coast.

My favorite is, by far, Tim Powers' "On Stranger Tides".  I *love* this book,
consider it head and shoulders above any other pirate story I've read (followed
closely by Treasure Island, perhaps?), and I read it on average once every 18
months or so.  It's a tough book to find in a store, though - I think it's out
of print.  But if you can hunt it down, it's definitely worth the effort.
Blackbeard, voodoo magic, and some nice historical tie-ins.

Any other suggestions from the crowd?

-s



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Contemporary Pirate Fiction
 
(...) Shaun, I've always enjoyed "Howard Pyles Book of Pirates" for enjoyable reading. His pictures are super too. He has another version of pirate stories entitled "Tales of Pirates and Buccaneers"! I believe that there are some stories repeated in (...) (22 years ago, 1-Jun-02, to lugnet.pirates)
  Re: Contemporary Pirate Fiction
 
Shaun, Classical fiction- *my* absolute favorite pirate story is Rafael Sabatini's "Captain Blood" (great movie too), "The Sea-Hawk" is very good too and yes, of course "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Contemporary fiction- George (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.pirates)
  Re: Contemporary Pirate Fiction
 
(...) Not really piratical itself, but in the period and great fun for me was the Hornblower saga: (URL) interest always leaned to the more military side of things :-) The recent English set of telemovies was pretty cool too, for those looking for a (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.pirates)

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