Pirates have begun to attract serious and talented …

Pirates have begun to attract serious and talented scholars and writers in recent years; Gregory N. Flemming exemplifies the trend in At the Point of a Cutlass. Here is the powerful story of Philip Ashton’s life-and-death encounter with the notorious sea-robber Ned Low and his swaggering band of pirates. Flemming’s dramatic history of real pirates is vastly better than the Hollywood version!”