false 49851 6 Though literature, films, and folklore have romanticized pirates as gallant seaman who hunted for treasure in exotic locales, David Cordingly, a former curator at the National Maritime Museum in England, reveals the facts behind the legends of such outlaws as Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, and Calico Jack. Even stories about buried treasure are fictitious, he says, yet still the myth remains. Though pirate captains were often sadistic villains and crews endured barbarous tortures, were constantly threatened with the possibility of death by hanging, drowning in a storm, or surviving a shipwreck on a hostile coast, pirates are still idealized. Cordingly examines why the myth of the romance of piratehood endures and why so few lived out their days in luxury on the riches they had plundered. 803754 1996 Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates total:868|5:140|4:304|3:316|2:94|1:14| 868 3066 1423 156 3 2 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 16:50:10 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 19:01:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 13:09:29 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 11:29:50 -0800 2009
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