Paige McLoughlin’s Reviews > Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates > Status Update

Pirate islands pirates in books and films and Captain Kidd and his treasure rumored to be hidden somewhere around long Island sound

Violence torture and cruelty

Accounts pirate raids

Life at sea and shipwrecks as well as some hints some homosexual relationships with pirates

Women pirates Ann Bonney and Mary Reed and Grace o'malley

Captain Henry Morgan, a famous privateer in the seventeenth century.

sir Francis Drake and early privateers on the gold and silver on the Spanish Main in the sixteenth century.

General introduction to the subject and general outline of the figure of the pirate and the reality.