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Re: Contemporary Pirate Fiction
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lugnet.pirates
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Sun, 2 Jun 2002 05:49:05 GMT
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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 MacDonald Fraser's "The Pyrates" (1984)
If you liked Wilbur A. Smith's "Birds of Prey" the followup in the Courteney
series is "Monsoon" (2000)
I dunno why I never got around to reading Tim Powers' "On Stranger Tides", I
guess 'cause it came out while I was moldering in college, I've since put it
on my "to read" list.
Reference -
"The Buccaneers of America" by Alexander O. Exquemelin (orig:1678,2nd
edition-translated:1924)
"Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the
Pirates" by David Cordingly (1996)
And for information on female bucaneers try -
"She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea" by Joan Druett (2000)
--
Bill Toenjes
(TooMuchDew)
In lugnet.pirates, Shaun Sullivan writes:
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> Soooo, anybody have any good recommendations?
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> A decent read is Wilbur Smith's "Bird of Prey", or something like that. IIRC,
> it's set along the African Coast.
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> 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.
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> Any other suggestions from the crowd?
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> -s
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