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Contemporary Pirate Fiction
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lugnet.pirates
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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
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| (...) 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)
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| 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)
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| (...) 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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